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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. 14, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2001
Applicants:
Cedell A. Alexander, Jr., Durham, NC (US);
Hood L. Richardson, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Edward J. Rovner, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Inventors:
Cedell A. Alexander, Jr., Durham, NC (US);
Hood L. Richardson, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Edward J. Rovner, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Assignee:
Extreme Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F015/177 ; H04L012/28 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems for efficiently delivering data to multiple destinations in a computer network are disclosed. Data to be delivered to multiple destinations is stored in memory. The stored data is divided into blocks. Checksums are pre-calculated for each block. Pre-calculated checksums are used to calculate the data checksums for data to be inserted in each packet to be delivered to data destinations.