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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
May. 20, 2005
Applicants:
Shigeyoshi Ohara, Kawaski, JP;
Kazunori Masuyama, Kahoku, JP;
Inventors:
Shigeyoshi Ohara, Kawaski, JP;
Kazunori Masuyama, Kahoku, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Before the link of each port of a switch provide with a plurality of ports for interconnecting a plurality of process nodes by a serial bus is established, it is checked whether each process node is mounted. Then, of the plurality of ports, a port to which one of mounted process nodes is connected is assigned as an upstream port and the other ports are assigned as downstream ports.