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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2005
Michael Sean Mcgee, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mark Richard Enstone, Austin, TX (US);
Mark Christopher Stratton, Georgetown, TX (US);
Christopher L. Hughes, Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael Sean McGee, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mark Richard Enstone, Austin, TX (US);
Mark Christopher Stratton, Georgetown, TX (US);
Christopher L. Hughes, Round Rock, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A plurality of peer network devices are configured to load-balance data transmitted between them on a point-by-point basis. Each peer device has a team of network resources coupling it to a local area network. A peer device transmitting data to one of the other peer devices load-balances the data over the team of resources of the receiving one of the peer devices. Each peer device multicasts to the other peer devices a data frame from that includes peer data defining attributes of the team of the multicasting peer device. The multicast data frame is updated with new peer data whenever one or more of the attributes of the team of the multicasting peer device are changed.