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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:
Nov. 13, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2002
Applicants:
Hawkins Yao, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Gunlock, Houston, TX (US);
Po-wei Tan, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
CipherMax, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Network processors controlled by software are used to implement the FC-1 and FC-2 layer functions. Each Network Processor comprises a fabric processor, an executive processor, channel processors and associated serial data processors. Special ASICs are not required since all of the Fiber Channel layers may be implementation with the network processors under software control.