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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. 22, 2005
Filed:
May. 10, 2001
Applicants:
Russ Tuck, San Jose, CA (US);
David Skirmont, Redwood City, CA (US);
Puneet Agarwal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Russ Tuck, San Jose, CA (US);
David Skirmont, Redwood City, CA (US);
Puneet Agarwal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pluris, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L012/28 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A multicast engine is provided in plurality within a router for replicating and/or modifying packets identified as multicast packets. In preferred embodiments the engine is integrated with one or more ports of a router, particularly with one or more ports of fabric cards. In one implementation the multicast engine is associated with a table having instructions for replicating or modifying multicast packets received, and forwarding the packets accordingly.