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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:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard M. Wyatt, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
Mosaid Technologies, Inc., Kanata, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/108 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/108 ;
Abstract
In a switch with multiple physical links to a destination, data is forwarded to the destination by distributing received data across the physical links. A flow hash is selected for the received data's data flow dependent on a destination address and source address included in the received data. The flow hash selects one of the physical links to the destination for a data flow but potentially a different physical link for a different data flow, thereby forwarding the received data by distributing the received data across the physical links while maintaining frame ordering within a data flow.