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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2003
Soowan Suh, San Ramon, CA (US);
Jing Ling, Fremont, CA (US);
Juan-carlos Calderon, Fremont, CA (US);
Jean-michel Caia, San Francisco, CA (US);
Soowan Suh, San Ramon, CA (US);
Jing Ling, Fremont, CA (US);
Juan-Carlos Calderon, Fremont, CA (US);
Jean-Michel Caia, San Francisco, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for processing at least two types of payloads received at varying intervals in a communications network using a single processing path is provided. The two types of payloads may include virtually and contiguously concatenated payloads according to SONET/SHD architecture. The method comprises assigning pseudo indices to payloads having no indices associated therewith and providing both sets of payloads, including indices and pseudo indices, to the single processing path.