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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:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2003
Applicant:
Vipul Sharma, Germantown, MD (US);
Inventor:
Vipul Sharma, Germantown, MD (US);
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a proxy driver in the control plane of a router or switch providing a centralized Application Program Interface (API) between a switching application and multiple device drivers in the router chassis. Another embodiment of the invention provides a centralized method for enforcing a topology in the control plane of a router. Another embodiment of the invention provides a centralized method in the control plane for the discovery of resources, for example, as cards are added or removed from the router chassis.