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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:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2006
Applicants:
James Pang, Vancouver, CA;
Peter Lam, Vancouver, CA;
Inventors:
James Pang, Vancouver, CA;
Peter Lam, Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
Ericsson AB, Stockholm, SE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for securing a layer II bridging switch for subscriber aggregation is described. The method receives packets from a circuit on the layer II bridging switch and makes a forwarding decision for each packet based on at least one of the addresses of the packet being currently assigned to a second circuit.