The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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:
Sep. 15, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2012
Applicant:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN;

Inventor:

Jiangtao Hao, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/709 (2013.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0668 (2013.01); H04L 41/0663 (2013.01); H04L 45/245 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01); H04L 41/0654 (2013.01); Y02B 60/33 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for link aggregation failure protection includes: receiving failure information including a failure location and an identity of more than one corresponding logical link, a failed physical link and more than one physical link form an LAG, each physical link in the LAG corresponds to logical links with a same identity, and the logical links with the same identity in the LAG correspond to an RSP device of a backbone layer and a receiving device of an access layer and forward data separately through more than two aggregation devices at an aggregation layer locating between the backbone layer and the access layer; according to the failure information, bundling a logical link corresponding to the failed physical link with a logical link corresponding to a physical link without failure in the LAG to form a logical LAG; and transmitting, through the logical LAG, data sent to the failed physical link.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…