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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:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2007
Applicants:
Christian Sasso, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anand Hariharan, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronak Desai, Fremont, CA (US);
Siddharth Kasat, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Christian Sasso, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anand Hariharan, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronak Desai, Fremont, CA (US);
Siddharth Kasat, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04J 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a technique for performing partial build fabric operations when merging two or more Fibre Channel fabrics is provided. By maintaining a Principal Switch already assigned for one of two merging fabrics, a limited 'partial build' may be performed for the other merging fabric. As a result, the time required for a Principal Switch selection phase may be greatly reduced.