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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:
Feb. 23, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2012
Applicants:

Charles P. Thacker, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Andreas G. Nowatzyk, San Jose, CA (US);

Fang Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Charles P. Thacker, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Andreas G. Nowatzyk, San Jose, CA (US);

Fang Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/437 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/913 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/437 (2013.01); H04L 41/0823 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 47/724 (2013.01); H04L 49/356 (2013.01); H04L 41/0896 (2013.01);
Abstract

A circuit-based digital communications network is provided for a large data center environment that utilizes circuit switching in lieu of packet switching in order to lower the cost of the network and to gain performance efficiencies. A method for transmitting data in such a network comprises sending a setup request for a path for transmitting the data to a destination node and then speculatively sending the data to the destination node before the setup request is completed.


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