Patent ID: 11949599
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored therein which when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations for implementing conversation-sensitive collection for frames received on a port of a link of a link aggregation group, where a conversation includes an ordered sequence of frames, the operations comprising:
receiving a set of frames over the link of the link aggregation group at a network device, wherein a frame in the set of frames includes a service identifier and is associated with a conversation identifier;
comparing the conversation identifier with port conversation allocation for the port of the link aggregation group, wherein comparing the conversation identifier with the port conversation allocation comprises looking up an array that is indexed by port conversation identifier, and wherein each entry within the array comprises a set of service identifiers that map to a conversation identifier;
discarding, at a link aggregation sublayer, the frame in response to a non-match of the conversation identifier with the port conversation allocation to maintain the ordered sequence of frames in the conversation.