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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2001
Gregg Anthony Westbrook, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Dejanovic, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for distributed resequencing and distributed reassembly of large packets split into smaller packets with each packet typically marked with a sequence number, timestamp, or other ordering and reassembly indications, and distributed among different paths and arriving possibly out of their original sequence. Multiple resequencing components communicated information as to received packets and coordinate the sending of packets from themselves, typically to produce a stream of resequenced packets which is then distributed to multiple reassembly components, which communicate information as to received packets and coordinate the sending of packets from themselves so as to produce the reassembled larger packets. When all packets comprising a larger packet are received by one of the distributed resequencing components, the reassembly components transmit their packets typically over a common bus or link in a coordinated fashion as to produce the original larger packet.