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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:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2013
Applicant:

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Bao Lei, Wuxi, CN;

Ren J. Yao, Wuxi, CN;

Tamanna Z. Sait, San Jose, CA (US);

Venkatesan Selvaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/709 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08081 (2013.01); H04L 45/245 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); Y02B 60/33 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method for providing virtual link aggregation (vLAG) includes forming a third logical port using a first logical port and a second logical port; determining first networking protocol state information corresponding to the third logical port using the first networking system, where the first networking protocol state information includes an indication of whether the first networking system is capable of communicating with the second networking system via an interswitch link (ISL) The method also includes storing a first networking protocol state information corresponding to the third logical port using the first networking system; communicating the first networking protocol state information to the second networking system via the and storing the first networking protocol state information using the second networking system.


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