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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:
Sep. 12, 1995

Filed:

Jun. 07, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:

Radia J Perlman, Acton, MA (US);

William R Hawe, Pepperell, MA (US);

Assignee:

Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 8513 ; 370 99 ;
Abstract

A frame having a desired destination address written into the destination address field of the frame is transmitted onto a first communications system, the frame is received by the apparatus, the frame is transmitted by the apparatus onto a second communications system with a second destination address written into the destination address field of the second frame, and also the desired destination address is written into a predetermined field of the second frame along with an indicator. The indicator is capable if being interpreted by a receiving station to mean that the desired destination address is written into the predetermined field of the second frame.


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