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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:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2003
Applicants:
Kreg A. Martin, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ronald K. Kreuzenstein, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kreg A. Martin, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ronald K. Kreuzenstein, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A switch comprising front-end and back-end application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) is disclosed. Frame storage and retrieval in the switch is achieved by dividing a frame into equal sized portions that are sequentially stored in switch memory during an assigned time slot. Control logic coupled to the front-end and back-end ASICs assigns the time slot either dynamically or statically.