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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:
Jul. 25, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2021
Applicant:
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam, IL;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/55 (2022.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04L 43/0823 (2022.01); H04L 1/20 (2006.01); H04L 43/0852 (2022.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 49/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/555 (2013.01); H04L 1/0061 (2013.01); H04L 1/1628 (2013.01); H04L 1/203 (2013.01); H04L 43/0823 (2013.01); H04L 43/0852 (2013.01); H04L 49/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a network device, including packet processing circuitry, which includes at least one interface configured to receive packets, and packet forwarding circuitry configured to make respective forwarding decisions for respective ones of the packets, wherein the packet processing circuitry is configured to assign sequence numbers to the packets in at least one stage of packet processing, find missing packets in at least one corresponding later stage of the packet processing responsively to checking for missing sequence numbers among the assigned sequence numbers, and report the missing packets.