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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2005
Laurent Ciavaglia, Fontainebleau, FR;
Emmanuel Dotaro, Verrieres le Buisson, FR;
Laurent Ciavaglia, Fontainebleau, FR;
Emmanuel Dotaro, Verrieres le Buisson, FR;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A system is dedicated to processing data frames for a communications network that supports one or more communications protocols. The system includes, firstly, a detection module adapted, on receipt of a data frame, to determine, from a plurality of sets of predefined values corresponding to respective different forms of protocol processing, the set containing a value taken by a selected frame field contained in the received frame and used by the protocol, and, secondly, a processing module adapted to determine a specific form of protocol processing corresponding to the set determined by the detection module and to be applied to the received frame.