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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:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2004
Applicants:
Claudiu Schiller, Haifa, IL;
Leah Shalev, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Inventors:
Claudiu Schiller, Haifa, IL;
Leah Shalev, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The disclosed invention relates to a method and system to transmit data packets through a switched network system that is composed of a plurality of routing entities. The method determines whether or not the output port assigned to the data packet and the associated input port are local to the routing entity by referencing an index pointer to a routing table.