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

Claim 9:
10. A network device configured to implement 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 network device comprising:
a set of aggregation ports configured to receive a set of frames over the link of the link aggregation group, wherein a frame in the set of frames includes a service identifier and is associated with a conversation identifier; and
a network processor coupled to the set of aggregation ports, the network processor configured to execute a link aggregation sublayer including a frame collector, the frame collector configured to:
compare a conversation identifier of the frame 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, and
discard 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.