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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2008
Jay Charles Borkenhagen, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Richard Kwapniewski, Middletown, NJ (US);
Thomas Bradley Scholl, Seattle, WA (US);
Jay Charles Borkenhagen, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Richard Kwapniewski, Middletown, NJ (US);
Thomas Bradley Scholl, Seattle, WA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described that instruct routers having constrained hardware/memory to redirect all outbound traffic to a helper router. The helper router contains a full routing table that can forward any packet to its destination. In a large service provider network, helper routers may be distributed at multiple locations across the network. Since packets must detour through the helper router, the distributed helper routers minimize latency.