- Patent Title: Explicit notification of operative conditions along a network path
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Application No.: US17198292Application Date: 2021-03-11
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Publication No.: US11622028B2Publication Date: 2023-04-04
- Inventor: Yuval Shpigelman , Idan Burstein , Aviv Kfir , Liron Mula , Niv Aibester , Gil Levy
- Applicant: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: IL Yokneam
- Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: IL Yokneam
- Agency: Kligler & Associates Patent Attorneys Ltd
- Main IPC: H04L47/33
- IPC: H04L47/33 ; H04L69/22 ; H04L47/12 ; H04L1/00

Abstract:
A network element includes circuitry and multiple ports. The multiple ports are configured to connect to a communication network. The circuitry is configured to receive via one of the ports a packet that originated from a source node and is destined to a destination node, the packet including a mark that is indicative of a cumulative state derived from at least bandwidth utilization conditions of output ports that were traversed by the packet along a path, from the source node up to the network element, to select a port for forwarding the packet toward the destination node, to update the mark of the packet based at least on a value of the mark in the received packet and on a local bandwidth utilization condition of the selected port, and to transmit the packet having the updated mark to the destination node via the selected port.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210344782A1 Explicit notification of operative conditions along a network path Public/Granted day:2021-11-04
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