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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2011
Brendan Hall, Morristown, NJ (US);
Srivatsan Varadarajan, Morristown, NJ (US);
Guenther Bauer, Schoenbrunnerstrasse, AT;
Wilfried Steiner, Schoenbrunnerstrasse, AT;
Brendan Hall, Morristown, NJ (US);
Srivatsan Varadarajan, Morristown, NJ (US);
Guenther Bauer, Schoenbrunnerstrasse, AT;
Wilfried Steiner, Schoenbrunnerstrasse, AT;
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Abstract
A communication switch comprises a plurality of ports and a processing unit configured to identify source ports and destination ports from the plurality of ports on a per virtual link basis. Each virtual link comprises one or more source ports via which frames are received from one or more source nodes and one or more destination ports via which received frames are forwarded to one or more destination nodes. For at least one virtual link, the processing unit is configured to accept more than one of the plurality of ports as source ports.