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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2011
Applicants:
Joseph Juh-en Cheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jian Liu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joseph Juh-En Cheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jian Liu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/54 (2013.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/6295 (2013.01); H04L 47/6225 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch that includes a transmission mechanism configured to transmit frames stored in a queue, and a queue management mechanism configured to store frames associated with the queue in a number of sub-queues which allow frames in different sub-queues to be retrieved independently, thereby facilitating parallel processing of the frames stored in the sub-queues.