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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2002
Applicants:
Laurent Frouin, Rennes, FR;
Falk Tannhauser, Rennes, FR;
Inventors:
Laurent Frouin, Rennes, FR;
Falk Tannhauser, Rennes, FR;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for the broadcasting of a data packet, called a broadcast packet, within a switched network comprising a plurality of nodes connected to one another by a plurality of links, said broadcast packet being broadcast along a spanning tree of the network. Each node is of the type used to send said broadcast packets simultaneously on several links. The method comprises a step for the calculation of said spanning tree that consists in minimizing the number of links per node included in said spanning tree.