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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:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Barry A. Spinney, Wayland, MA (US);
Nigel T. Poole, Natick, MA (US);
Krishna Narayanaswamy, Acton, MA (US);
Theodore L. Ross, Maynard, MA (US);
Richard Szmauz, New Ipswich, NH (US);
Assignee:
Top Layer Networks, Inc., Westboro, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/108 ; G06F 1/100 ; G08C 1/500 ; H04J 1/16 ; H04J 3/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/108 ; G06F 1/100 ; G08C 1/500 ; H04J 1/16 ; H04J 3/14 ;
Abstract
A process and system for switching connections of data packet flows between nodes of data processing system networks operating on diverse protocols according to the application layer information on the data packets.