The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2008
Hemanta K. Dutta, Austin, TX (US);
Seeta Hariharan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Sridhar Rao, Raleigh, NC (US);
Yanping Wang, Cary, NC (US);
Hemanta K. Dutta, Austin, TX (US);
Seeta Hariharan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Sridhar Rao, Raleigh, NC (US);
Yanping Wang, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for developing portable packet processing applications on network processors includes a docking platform which provides a common interface for individual packet processing applications to be plugged into the network processing environment. Each application interacts with the docking platform through the common interfaces provided by the latter. The docking platform interacts with the other modules inside the system to accomplish the requests from the application. In this manner, the applications become 'shielded' from the implementation details of the underlying hardware. The applications need not change when the network processor hardware features are changed. It therefore provides a universal packet processing programming environment in which applications can execute in a portable and flexible manner in various hardware architectures.