Patent ID: 9521092
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A transport system, comprising: a first transport apparatus for transporting data received by a plurality of first physical ports; and a second transport apparatus for receiving the data transported from the first transport apparatus and transmitting the received data from a plurality of second physical ports, wherein the first transport apparatus notifies, for each of the plurality of first physical ports, to the second transport apparatus, a valid first lane count indicating how many of a plurality of first lanes owned by the first physical port are valid, and identification information of the first physical port that owns the valid first lanes, and wherein the second transport apparatus is configured to: wherein, when the identification information of the first physical port is associated with pieces of identification information of two or more second physical ports out of the plurality of second physical ports, the second transport apparatus associates so that identification information of only one second physical port out of the plurality of second physical ports is associated with the identification information of the first physical port.