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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2019
Applicant:

T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Lyle W. Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US);

William M. Parsel, Overland Park, KS (US);

Carl J. Persson, Olathe, KS (US);

Matthew C. Schlesener, Shawnee Mission, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/861 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/947 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/70 (2013.01); G06F 21/606 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 43/028 (2013.01); H04L 49/9068 (2013.01); H04L 69/324 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2149 (2013.01); H04L 49/252 (2013.01); H04L 63/029 (2013.01); H04L 2212/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network interface controller (NIC). The NIC includes a first physical port, a second physical port, a non-transitory memory, a processor coupled to the first and second physical ports, and a data packet grooming application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the application is configured to parse datagrams encapsulated within data link layer packets received by the first physical port, analyze the encapsulated datagrams based on a processing policy stored in the non-transitory memory, transmit some of the received data link layer packets via the second physical port to a server computer associated with the NIC, and transmit the remainder of the received data link layer packets via the first physical port to a second server computer.


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