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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. 28, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2004
Applicant:
William J. Wen, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
William J. Wen, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
QLOGIC, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01); H04J 1/02 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and fiber channel switch element for capturing data in a fiber channel system is provided. The method includes, detecting a condition for enabling data capture; setting a control bit to enable data capture; and capturing data based on the set control bit. The switch element includes, a diagnostic port that can configured as a traditional communication port and/or a data capture port depending on incoming frame data. The diagnostic port filters incoming frames, which is used to enable data capture.