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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2006
Applicants:
Alan R. Albrecht, Roseville, CA (US);
Stuart Johnston, El Dorado, CA (US);
Bruce E. Lavigne, Roseville, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Watts, Roseville, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alan R. Albrecht, Roseville, CA (US);
Stuart Johnston, El Dorado, CA (US);
Bruce E. LaVigne, Roseville, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Watts, Roseville, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Buffer management in a network device. A new data packet is received at a packet buffer queue of the network switch, wherein the new data packet is a portion of a burst block. If the packet buffer queue is full, a data packet from within the packet buffer queue that is not a last sequential data packet of a burst block is dropped.