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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
May. 15, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Sidney Brower Schrum, Jr., Ocala, FL (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A hybrid device can apply forwarding tables associated with one or more other hybrid network devices of a hybrid communication network to control the entire transmission route of a frame scheduled for transmission. The hybrid device can use its forwarding table and a forwarding table of a destination hybrid device to determine a source network interface address, a destination network interface address, and a frame transmission route. The destination hybrid device can use forwarding tables associated with one or more hybrid network devices to determine whether to process or drop a received frame, whether the frame was previously received, and/or whether the frame was received on an incorrect network interface. The hybrid device can also use the forwarding tables to ensure that the frame comprises an appropriate link layer address and to select an appropriate transmission route based on analyzing link performance values associated with multiple transmission routes.