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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:
Apr. 26, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 25, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Esslingen am Neckar, DE;

Harald Huels, Horb, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 45/586 (2022.01); H04L 49/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method comprises receiving an index number for each of a plurality of physical processing units, each of the plurality of physical processing units communicatively coupled to each of a plurality of switch chips in a leaf-spine topology; assigning at least one of the plurality of physical processing units to a first virtual drawer by updating an entry in a virtual drawer table indicating an association between the respective index number of the at least one physical processing unit and an index of the first virtual drawer; and performing a drawer management function based on the virtual drawer table.


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