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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:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2007
Applicants:
Stephen F Froelich, Corvallis, OR (US);
Lloyd E Wright, Albany, OR (US);
Michael J Uppendahl, Salem, OR (US);
Inventors:
Stephen F Froelich, Corvallis, OR (US);
Lloyd E Wright, Albany, OR (US);
Michael J Uppendahl, Salem, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of a system with a first network device and at least first and second links connecting the first network device and one or more other network devices are disclosed. The first network device determines the costs of the first and the second links using the latencies of the first and the second links and factors that correspond to the bandwidths of the first and the second links.