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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:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2009
Alan M. Judge, Dublin, IE;
David J. Mcgaugh, Seattle, WA (US);
James R. Hamilton, Seattle, WA (US);
Justin O. Pietsch, Bothell, WA (US);
David J. O'meara, Dublin, IE;
Alan M. Judge, Dublin, IE;
David J. McGaugh, Seattle, WA (US);
James R. Hamilton, Seattle, WA (US);
Justin O. Pietsch, Bothell, WA (US);
David J. O'Meara, Dublin, IE;
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A hierarchical distributed routing architecture including at least three levels, or layers, for receiving, processing and forwarding data packets between network components is provided. The core level router components receive an incoming packet from a network component and identify a distribution level router component based on processing a subset of the destination address associated with the received packet. The distribution level router components receive a forwarded packet and identify a transit level router component based on at least a subset of the destination address associated with the received packet. The transit level router components receive the forwarded packet and forward the packet to a respective network. The mapping of destination addresses to router components of may be managed by a router management component. In some embodiments, mapping of destination address to router components may be based, at least in part, on traffic volumes associated with the mapped destination addresses.