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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:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2009
Applicants:
Chinh Kim Nguyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Curtis Hall Stehley, Baltimore, MD (US);
Inventors:
Chinh Kim Nguyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Curtis Hall Stehley, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
Teradata US, Inc., Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/54 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 12/5689 (2013.01);
Abstract
A full bisection bandwidth network, having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of paths among the nodes, is divided into a plurality of Virtual Local Area Networks ('VLANs') by assigning paths to the VLANs such that each VLAN satisfies a spanning tree protocol and all paths are active in at least one VLAN.