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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:
Feb. 22, 2011

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2005
Applicants:

Bruce E. Lavigne, Roseville, CA (US);

John A. Wickeraad, Granite Bay, CA (US);

Lewis S. Kootstra, Roseville, CA (US);

Jonathan M. Watts, Folsom, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bruce E. LaVigne, Roseville, CA (US);

John A. Wickeraad, Granite Bay, CA (US);

Lewis S. Kootstra, Roseville, CA (US);

Jonathan M. Watts, Folsom, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Network devices and methods are provided for device monitoring. One embodiment includes a network device having a processor, a high speed interconnect and a number of network chips. The number of network chips are coupled to one another through the high speed interconnect. The number of network chips have a conduit port which can be selectively chosen to exchange packets, received to any network chip, with the processor.


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