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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. 10, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2004
Applicants:
Nicolas G. Droux, San Jose, CA (US);
Sunay Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Durrant, Slough, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a network interface card (NIC) aggregation framework, including a plurality of providers each configured to publish at least one port, a MAC client configured to send a packet to the at least one port, and a media access control (MAC) service module configured to map the at least one port to one of the plurality of providers, wherein the MAC service module comprises a client interface configured to interface with the MAC client and a provider interface configured to interface with each of the plurality of providers.