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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:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yunzhou Li, Lowell, MA (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Corp., , CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/256 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/256 ;
Abstract
A method of routing network packets to a border router joining different network domains includes defining a range of addresses for the border router in a router forwarding table, receiving a network packet, determining addresses included in the network packet, performing a search on the router forwarding table using the determined addresses, and transmitting the packet to the border router if the defined range of addresses matches for the determined addresses.