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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2013
Applicant:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Magesh Valliappan, Austin, TX (US);
Sameer Kanhaiyalal Shah, Austin, TX (US);
Sundararajan Chidambara, Austin, TX (US);
Anand Kumar Pathak, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
BROADCOM CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0809 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an in-band process to inform an external repeater of a desired new configuration or mode of operation. After negotiation of rate and other information during an auto-negotiation routine, a network node sends configuration information to a network element, such as an external network repeater.