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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:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph Regan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alfred Nothaft, Keller, TX (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5173 ; H04L 1/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5173 ; H04L 1/228 ;
Abstract
A network device is presented comprising a filtering database, a link state database and a controller, coupled to each of the filtering database and the link state database, to process data received from remote network devices based, at least in part, on distance vector information stored in the filtering database, link state information stored in the link state database, and content of the received data.