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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2011
Sidney B. Schrum, Jr., Ocala, FL (US);
Richard E. Newman, Gainsville, FL (US);
Sidney B. Schrum, Jr., Ocala, FL (US);
Richard E. Newman, Gainsville, FL (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A hybrid network device can implement functionality to indicate the sequence of packets associated with a common packet stream transmitted via a plurality of packet routes and to manage out-of-order packet arrival. In a hybrid communication network, a first network device can determine sequence identifiers associated with a plurality of packets of a packet stream received from a second network device via a plurality of packet routes between the first network device and the second network device. The first network device can detect out-of-order delivery of one or more of the plurality of received packets based, at least in part, on the sequence identifiers associated with the plurality of packets. Consequently, the first network device can re-order at least a subset of the plurality of packets based on the sequence identifiers associated with the plurality of packets.