Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Port membership table partitioning
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Application No.: US13836224Application Date: 2013-03-15
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Publication No.: US09054947B2Publication Date: 2015-06-09
- Inventor: Josep Cors , Ward R. Nelson , Jun C. Yin
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/24
- IPC: H04L12/24 ; H04L12/18 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
A firmware model is provided for a shared port membership table that is partitioned for different needs of a distributed network switch, such as broadcast groups, multicast groups, ACL rules, and other port membership groupings. The shared port membership table enables a control point to set the size of each of the types of port membership information based on their usage or expected usage. By shrinking one partition, the control point is able to use the port group entries for a different partition of port group information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140269756A1 PORT MEMBERSHIP TABLE PARTITIONING Public/Granted day:2014-09-18
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