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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:
Oct. 12, 2010

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2006
Applicants:

Mark C. Stratton, Austin, TX (US);

Michael Sean Mcgee, Austin, TX (US);

Matthew S Reeves, Austin, TX (US);

Darda M. Chang, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Mark C. Stratton, Austin, TX (US);

Michael Sean McGee, Austin, TX (US);

Matthew S Reeves, Austin, TX (US);

Darda M. Chang, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system of distributing multicast group join requests in computer systems operating with teamed communication ports. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are computer-readable media storing a program that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to intercept multicast group join requests sent from a network layer program executed by the processor, and distribute the multicast join requests across a plurality of communication ports operating as a single virtual port.


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