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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:
Jul. 24, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2003
Applicants:
Hiroki Suzuki, Katsushika-ku, JP;
Yukikuni Nishida, Yokosuka, JP;
Tsunemasa Hayashi, Atsugi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
IPoE/PPPoE forwarding tableis provided with which registered are network addresses, protocol types, destination IP addresses used in IPoE and retrieval indexes of PPPoE sessions used in PPPoE, a protocol type is selected corresponding to a network address in IPoE/PPPoE forwarding tablethat matches a destination IP address included in header information of an IP packet of an input frame, and when the selected protocol type is PPPoE, a PPPoE session is further selected from a retrieval index corresponding to the network address.