Method and apparatus for customizing and fowarding parameters in a network processor
US6675221B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 6, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jan 6, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 6, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L41/0806
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
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.
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