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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2000
W. Jeffrey Mitchem, Westminster, CO (US);
Michael E. O'Donnell, Westminster, CO (US);
McData Corporation, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
A method for scoring queued frames for selective transmission through a switch ( ) includes providing one or more switches in a fibre channel fabric, particularly one or more fibre channel switches ( ′). The method includes assigning an initial score ( ) to the content ( ) of the one or more frames ( ) of data ( ). The initial score ( ) is adjusted by one or more alternative score components to determine one or more adjusted scores ( ). The adjusted scores ( ) are compared. The method also provides for selecting frames ( ) having the highest adjusted scores ( ), and transmitting through the switches ( ) the frames ( ) having the highest adjusted scores ( ).