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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. 15, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yunzhou Li, Lowell, MA (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, , CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ; H04L 1/266 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ; H04L 1/266 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method of managing given VPN routing data received for a given VPN encodes the given VPN routing data into a format that is compatible with a located routing table. The encoded VPN routing data then is stored in the routing table. The routing table may have routing data for the given VPN, and routing data for another VPN. Accordingly, the routing table is capable of storing VPN routing data for more than one VPN.