Patent · US Expired

Content service aggregation device for a data center

US7363353B2 · kind B2 · utility

56Cited by
9References
31Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateJul 8, 2002
Grant dateApr 22, 2008
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 20, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/18
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An architecture for controlling a multiprocessing system to provide at least one network service to subscriber data packets transmitted in the system using a plurality of compute elements, comprising a management compute element including service set-up information for at least one service and at least one processing compute element applying said at least one network service to said data packets and communicating service set-up information with the management compute element in order to perform service specific operations on data packets. In a further embodiment, a method of controlling a processing system including a plurality of processors is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of operating at least one of said processors as a control authority providing service provisioning information for a subscriber; and operating a set of processors as a service specific compute element responsive to the control authority, receiving provisioning information from the subscriber and performing service specific instructions on data packets to provide IP content services.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.