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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:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Casimer M. DeCusatis, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Keshav G. Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);

Abhijit P. Kumbhare, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/735 (2013.01); H04L 12/933 (2013.01); H04L 12/717 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 45/128 (2013.01); H04L 45/1283 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 49/15 (2013.01); H04L 45/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

Each of a network fabric controller device and a network fabric forwarder devices includes network connecting hardware and network managing logic. The network connecting hardware of the devices connects them to a singly contiguous network fabric including switching devices that route data between initiator nodes and target nodes and that have routing logic programmable by the controller device. The controller device does not directly route the data themselves. The network managing logic of the devices effects multipaths for transmission of the data through the singly contiguous network fabric from the initiator node to the target nodes via programming of the routing logic of the switching devices.


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