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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1998
Vijay K. Aggarwal, Marlboro, MA (US);
Christopher R. Young, Waltham, MA (US);
Himanshu C. Shah, Framingham, MA (US);
Nexabit Networks LLC, Marlboro, MA (US);
Abstract
In Internet and related networks, a method of and system for substitute use of the normal checksum field space in information processing (IP) datagram headers for obviating current processing time and addressing space limitations, involving replacing the current checksum usage in the checksum field with its attendant processing time with further source host and destination host addresses of lesser processing time, thereby increasing the address space for the network and decreasing the require header processing time, and/or providing space for autonomous system numbers, a higher layer protocol-based routing information (including of the MPLS type) or for Virtual Private Networks Indentifiers in the header.