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Patent Inventor Names
Ballard Claude Bare0
Cetin Ersoy0
Shaun Kazuo Wakumoto0
Date of Patent
June 28, 2011
0Patent Application Number
108122600
Date Filed
March 29, 2004
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of cost determination for paths between switches in a mesh. A set of paths between each pair of the mesh switches is defined, and start-up costs for the paths are calculated. The costs for the previously defined paths are subsequently recalculated using a directed cost protocol. The directed cost protocol may include generating at a first switch a cost packet with path information associated with a specific path, and unlasting the cost packet via the specific path to a second switch.
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