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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:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2011
Joseph Juh-en Cheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Wing Cheung, Fremont, CA (US);
John Michael Terry, San Jose, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Surya P. Varanasi, Dublin, CA (US);
Parviz Ghalambor, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joseph Juh-En Cheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Wing Cheung, Fremont, CA (US);
John Michael Terry, San Jose, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Surya P. Varanasi, Dublin, CA (US);
Parviz Ghalambor, Los Altos, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a forwarding mechanism and a control mechanism. During operation, the forwarding mechanism forwards frames based on their Ethernet headers. The control mechanism operates the switch in conjunction with a separate physical switch as a single logical switch and assigns a virtual switch identifier to the logical switch, wherein the virtual switch identifier is associated with a link aggregation group.
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