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Title:
MULTIPROTOCOL HANDLING ARRANGEMENT
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2001077849
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
In a distributed networking environment employing several general purpose processors (i.e., control point processors) for controlling one or more network processor devices, a mechanism for distributing processing across several general purpose processors and interface for configuring a network processor so that specific general purpose processors handle specific operations in a large networking environment, thus, reducing requirement for provisioning a plurality of protocol stacks on each general purpose processor.

Inventors:
BASSO CLAUDE
VAIDHYANATHAN NATARAJAN
WOODLAND GAIL IRENE
Application Number:
PCT/GB2001/001566
Publication Date:
April 18, 2002
Filing Date:
April 05, 2001
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Assignee:
IBM (US)
IBM UK (GB)
International Classes:
H04L12/24; H04L29/06; H04L12/56; (IPC1-7): H04L12/56
Domestic Patent References:
WO2000005854A12000-02-03
Foreign References:
US5734830A1998-03-31
US5485460A1996-01-16
US5570084A1996-10-29
Other References:
J. AWEYA: "On the design of IP routers. Part 1: Router architectures", JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURE, vol. 46, no. 6, 1 April 2000 (2000-04-01), Amsterdam, NL, pages 483 - 511, XP004190486
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