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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventors:
Anoop Ghanwani, Rocklin, CA (US);
Sanjay Sane, Fremont, CA (US);
Shivakumar Sundaram, Chennai, IN;
Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
DELL PRODUCTS LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/781 (2013.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 45/52 (2013.01); H04L 45/54 (2013.01); H04L 45/122 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present invention include increasing the number of hops that can be specifically defined in a multiprotocol label switching stack. In embodiments of the present invention, a label space can be used to represent two or more labels. In embodiments of the present invention, the label space can be used by concatenating two or more labels and redefining the multiprotocol label switching stack operations and outgoing labels.