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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2003
Seeta Hariharan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brooks Johnston, Cary, NC (US);
Marc C. Lavergne, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Sridhar Rao, Raleigh, NC (US);
Bahram Sanaei, Raleigh, NC (US);
Seeta Hariharan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brooks Johnston, Cary, NC (US);
Marc C. Lavergne, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Sridhar Rao, Raleigh, NC (US);
Bahram Sanaei, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for managing a plurality of tables for a plurality of heterogeneous network processors in a network is disclosed. The network also includes at least one host processor that utilizes at least one table management application. The method and system include providing a plurality of generic application program interfaces (APIs). The generic APIs communicate with the control application(s) and the heterogeneous network processors. The generic APIs communicate with the table management application(s) in a network processor independent manner, but manage the tables for the heterogeneous network processors in a network processor specific manner. Thus, the generic APIs allow the control application(s) to be network processor independent and to manage the tables for the heterogeneous network processors in the network processor specific manner.