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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1999
Applicants:
Radesh Manian, San Jose, CA (US);
Shirish K. Sathe, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Radesh Manian, San Jose, CA (US);
Shirish K. Sathe, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus are described for scheduling traffic in a network. The method comprises (a) dividing a hardware schedule table into N logical schedule tables which are separated by table delimiters; and (b) assigning an identifier corresponding to a connection in the network in a scheduling table which is one of the N logical schedule tables.