Patent ID: 9473599
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of forming a custom data packet for a point-to-point trunk or Infiniband network, the method comprising the steps of: receiving and storing in a First-In First-Out (FIFO) register data packets, said data packets being standard data packets transmitted via a packet-switched computer network at speeds equal to or greater than 1 Gbps, the packet switched data packets having a packet switched header and a packet switched frame check sequence (FCS); in each of a plurality of selectors connected to the FIFO outputs, receiving a packet-switched data packet and stripping out the packet-switched header and replacing said packet-switched header with a mini-header wherein the mini-header is created based on a MAC address, an IP address and a destination port of the packet-switched data packet according to the following look-up table: a) if the combination of the MAC address, the IP address and the destination port has been identified before, using a packet-switched mini-header byte previously assigned to said combination as the mini-header; b) if the combination of the MAC address, the IP address and the destination port has not been identified before, assigning a new mini-header byte to said combination and using said new mini-header byte as the mini-header and forwarding the packet-switched header the first time only; and c) if the combination of the MAC address, the IP address and the destination port has not been identified before, but all of the mini-header bytes have already been assigned, assign the oldest mini-header byte that was assigned the longest time ago to said combination and using said oldest mini-header byte as the mini-header and forwarding the packet-switched header the first time only; filling each stripped data packet with 1 to 1,500 bytes of customer data to transform each data packet to a high payload data packet; replacing the packet-switched FCS with a mini-FCS; sending each said high payload data packet comprising said mini-header and said mini-FCS across the point-to-point trunk network having a reduced latency of less than 1 microsecond for roundtrip transmission; and recreating the standard data packet based on the mini-header and the mini-FCS.