Multiplex communications – Pathfinding or routing – Switching a message which includes an address header
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-26
2007-06-26
Pham, Chi (Department: 2616)
Multiplex communications
Pathfinding or routing
Switching a message which includes an address header
C370S412000, C370S429000, C370S907000
Reexamination Certificate
active
09855038
ABSTRACT:
A backplane interface adapter for a high-performance network switch. The backplane interface adapter receives narrow input cells carrying packets of data and outputs wide striped cells to a switching fabric. One traffic processing path through the backplane interface adapter includes deserializer receivers, a traffic sorter, wide cell generators, stripe send queues, a backplane transmit arbitrator, and serializer transmitters. Another traffic processing path through the backplane interface adapter includes deserialize receivers, a stripe interface, stripe receive synchronization queues, a controller, wide
arrow cell translator, destination queues, and serializer transmitters. An encoding scheme for packets of data carried in wide striped cells is provided.
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Chang Andrew
Patel Ronak
Wong Ming G
Abelson Ronald
Foundry Networks Inc.
Parsons James E.
Pham Chi
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