Patent ID: 11962505
Assignee: MARVELL ISRAEL (M.I.S.L) LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. The first leaf switch device of claim 10, wherein the multiple paths includes a first path and a second path, wherein the particular traffic flow is actually transmitted by the first leaf switch device via the first path during the first time interval, and wherein the load balancer device is configured to, as part of determining, for each of the multiple paths, the respective share of all traffic transmitted via the path:
determine a first share corresponding to the first path using received traffic quantity information that is indicative of a total amount of data that corresponds to i) the particular traffic flow received at a first port of the one or more second leaf switch devices and ii) one or more first other traffic flows received at the first port; and
determine a second share corresponding to the second path using received traffic quantity information that is indicative of a total amount of data that corresponds to one or more second other traffic flows received at the second port.