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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:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1999
Applicants:
David A. Schwartz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sudhakar S. Valluru, Fremont, CA (US);
Chun-chin D. Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
David A. Schwartz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sudhakar S. Valluru, Fremont, CA (US);
Chun-Chin D. Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L012/66 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A communications device includes a backplane, backplane cards, and a backplane switch. Each backplane card is coupled to the backplane and assigned an industry standard-based network address. The backplane switch, also coupled to the backplane, receives a first data packet with a first network address assigned to a backplane card and communicates the first data packet to the backplane card using the backplane.