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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:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2010
Applicant:
Weijing Chen, Leander, TX (US);
Inventor:
Weijing Chen, Leander, TX (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An Ethernet switch () has a communications interface (), and a controller (). The controller is programmed to receive () an IP query packet generated by a receiver for collecting telemetry data between a source and the receiver in a multicast network, translate () the IP query packet to an Ethernet query packet, collect () in the Ethernet query packet telemetry data from the Ethernet switch, and submit () the Ethernet query packet to the next network element of the multicast network. Additional embodiment are disclosed.