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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2009
Applicants:
Ralph Edward Droms, Westford, MA (US);
Madhu Sudan, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ralph Edward Droms, Westford, MA (US);
Madhu Sudan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A network device has a communications link to allow the device to communicate with customer devices and a processor. The processor is to receive neighbor discovery messages from requesting customer devices, examine the neighbor discovery messages to determine if the neighbor discovery message should be forwarded to other of the customer devices, and respond to the requesting customer devices.