Network based routing scheme

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2006-04-04

2010-02-16

Smith, Creighton (Department: 2614)

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Switching a message which includes an address header

C370S400000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07664116

ABSTRACT:
A network organization and routing scheme are provided. These techniques enable a network to control the paths that frames take through the network. A device transmitting a frame may add tags to the frame in order to define a particular path that the frame should take through the network. For example, the tags may indicate a link-by-link path between switches in the network. As another example, the network may be organized into one or more groups of switches, with each group and switch within a group having unique identifiers so that any given switch or port in the network may be referred to by a hierarchical identification, such as a group/switch/port identification.

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