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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:
Oct. 24, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 11, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anthony J Mazzola, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Network Systems, Inc., Richardson, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 8513 ; 370 941 ;
Abstract
A network element includes a plurality of routing circuits coupled by internal communication circuitry. Each routing circuit includes one or more external ports for communicating with external devices, one or more internal ports for communicating with other of the routing circuits, a database for storing address and path information received via the internal and external ports and circuitry for retransmitting address information received from an external device to other of the routing circuits.