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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2002
Applicants:
Shridhar Mubaraq Mishra, Berkeley, CA (US);
Pramod Kumar Pandey, Singapore, SG;
Guruprasad Ardhanari, Singapore, SG;
Inventors:
Shridhar Mubaraq Mishra, Berkeley, CA (US);
Pramod Kumar Pandey, Singapore, SG;
Guruprasad Ardhanari, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A Ethernet switchincludes a monitoring unitfor policing the amount of traffic on each of a plurality of flows or groups of flows. The monitoring unit has a memory, implemented in hardware as a RAM memory, having a section of each of the flows or groups of flows, and acting as a token bucket for those flows or group of flows.