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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2004
Applicants:

Hans Henrik Bostrom, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Senthil Arunachalam, Fremont, CA (US);

Sze-wa Lao, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Srinath Venkatesan, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hans Henrik Bostrom, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Senthil Arunachalam, Fremont, CA (US);

Sze-wa Lao, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Srinath Venkatesan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Data transmission across a computer network is disclosed, comprising creating a plurality of tunnels across a computer network to connect a first computer to a second computer, the plurality of tunnels including a tunnel for each link in a link aggregation of a plurality of transmission protocols, connecting a first computer at a first site with a second computer at a second site, the connection made via the computer network, and transmitting packets end-to-end from the first computer to the second computer in a manner characterized that the computer network preserves a connection from the first computer to the second computer without terminating the connection at the inbound edge of the computer network, the packets conforming to protocols in the plurality of transmission protocols.


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