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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1999
Applicants:
William Paul Sherer, Danville, CA (US);
Glenn Connery, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
William Paul Sherer, Danville, CA (US);
Glenn Connery, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L012/28 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A network transmitter (driver or adaptor/driver combination) reorders packets received for transmission from a higher layer protocol based on packet destinations. The invention reduces bottlenecks at the transmitter and potentially throughout network intermediate system. Destination based reordering may be accomplished through alternative methods, some alternatives taking into account the order at which packets to different destinations are queued by a higher layer protocol.