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US 2006/0221868 A1Published application
Methods and apparatus for realizing a configurable multi-bridge
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsArie de Heer, Ronald de Man
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for adapting the switching process of a bridge to partition the bridge ports into a plurality of port subsets such that the bridge operates on each of the port subsets in an independent manner.
Claims20
A method for adapting a network switching process, comprising:
- logically partitioning the ports of a bridge into a plurality of port subsets;
- and
- adapting the operation of said bridge to ensure that data is only coupled between ports associated with the same port subset.
A computer program product, wherein computer instructions, when processed by a computing device, adapt the operation of the computing device to invoke a method, comprising:
- logically partitioning the ports of a bridge into a plurality of port subsets;
- and
- adapting the operation of said bridge to ensure that data is only coupled between ports associated with the same port subset.
Apparatus, comprising:
- a bridge having logically partitioned ports forming a plurality of port subsets, wherein each port is associated with an identifier corresponding to its respective port subset;
- wherein
- data frames are only communicated between source and destination ports within the same port subset.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.