Patent ID: 9412178
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of transmitting data by at least one of hardware-agnostic or network interface-agnostic scalable link aggregation, the method comprising: selecting and identifying, by a controller device to a source device, one or more network ports of a plurality of available network ports of the controller device based on a scalable link aggregation parameter, the source device and the controller device being connected to a communications network and being associated with a subnetwork of the communications network, but not configured to support at least one of hardware-specific or network interface-specific link aggregation between the source device and the controller device; producing, by the source device, a plurality of network packets comprising the data; associating, by the source device, each of the network packets with a corresponding network port of the identified one or more network ports; and transmitting each network packet from the source device to the corresponding network port.