Patent ID: 11924005
Assignee: ROCKPORT NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 22:
23. A dedicated network gateway device for at least one of bridging, switching and routing network traffic between a traditional network and a direct interconnect network, comprising:
a first set of at least one traditional network ports with a single link per port, said first set of ports being connected to at least one of switches and devices that form the traditional network;
a second set of at least one direct interconnect ports with one or more links per port, said second set of ports being connected to the direct interconnect network;
a plurality of direct interconnect ports that are logically associated by the gateway device to act as a single direct interconnect node;
at least one direct interconnect computation device internally connected to at least one of the plurality of logically associated direct interconnect ports;
a switch computation device internally connected to each of the respective amount of the at least one direct interconnect device and the first set of traditional network ports; and
a coordination bus internally connected to the respective amount of the at least one direct interconnect computation device;
wherein the coordination bus is configured to facilitate communication of coordination information and decisions;
wherein the dedicated network gateway device is capable of bridging, switching or routing network traffic between the traditional network and the direct interconnect network; and
wherein the gateway device further comprises a coordination function that is distributed across the respective amount of at least one direct interconnect computation device that assigns one or more direct interconnect nodes within the direct interconnect network to each of the at least one logically associated direct interconnect ports so that only one of the logically associated direct interconnect ports processes the network traffic for a given flow.