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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2019
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/701 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/00 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided are a method, a system, and a computer program product in which a switchless network is maintained. A processor discovers a plurality of nodes in the switchless network by requesting and receiving port information and node information in association with an attribute that allows datagrams to be propagated among the plurality of nodes of the switchless network without being terminated at host channel adapters of the plurality of nodes.