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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. 18, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2002
Applicants:
Kuriappan P. Alappat, Portland, OR (US);
Brian Peebles, Cranford, NJ (US);
Aniruddha Kundu, Portland, OR (US);
Gerald Lebizay, Madison, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Kuriappan P. Alappat, Portland, OR (US);
Brian Peebles, Cranford, NJ (US);
Aniruddha Kundu, Portland, OR (US);
Gerald Lebizay, Madison, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/50 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A backplane employed in a switch fabric, having the capability to allow signal communication between at least two modules. Two or more of the modules being adapted to employ different topologies from the following types of topologies: star, dual star, mesh, and cascaded mesh.