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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:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2010
Applicant:
Marco Di Benedetto, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Marco Di Benedetto, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes defining a virtual node port proxy and virtual fabric port proxies at a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) bridge, the virtual node port proxy in communication with an FCoE forwarder, each of the virtual fabric port proxies in communication with an FCoE node in an FCoE network. The method further includes proxying FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) functions between the FCoE nodes and the FCoE forwarder at the FCoE bridge. An apparatus is also disclosed.