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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
David V. James, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bruce Fairman, Woodside, CA (US);
David Hunter, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; H04L 1/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; H04L 1/228 ;
Abstract
A method and system for ordering an interconnect topology to form a ring structure, the topology comprising a number of nodes, are described. In one embodiment, a self identifier for each of the nodes is determined. Further, the self identifier is mapped to a ring identifier for each node. In addition, each node computes the ring identifier of one of its port-connected nodes as its topologically adjacent neighbor identifier.