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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2010
Applicants:

Michael Schlansker, Los Altos, CA (US);

Jean Tourrilhes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Dwight L. Barron, Houston, TX (US);

Stephen G. Low, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Michael Schlansker, Los Altos, CA (US);

Jean Tourrilhes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Dwight L. Barron, Houston, TX (US);

Stephen G. Low, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

According to one example of the present invention, there is provided a method of routing data packets to a plurality of packet processors in a computer network. The method comprising obtaining workload data from the packet processors, determining a workload distribution across the packet processors, and updating a balancing table used by a switching element in the network based on the determined workload.


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