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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. 09, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1998
Kenneth Araujo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter Si-Sheng Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cheng Chen, Holmdel, NJ (US);
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A network intermediate device interacts with a remote network element and performs the control plane interactions for a communication protocol used on a network segment between the network intermediate device and the destination, and interacts with customer premises equipment CPE to offload data plane transactions according to the protocol normally performed by the network intermediate device to the CPE, without the CPE needing to be aware of the complexities of the protocol involved. By distributing certain recurring packet data processing functions, like appending headers and removing headers, to the endpoints, the packet processing at the network intermediate devices is streamlined and processing bottlenecks are alleviated.