Patent ID: 9479431
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for communicating among nodes in a network, the method comprising: sending a packet from an origin node to a destination node over a route that includes a plurality of nodes including the origin node and the destination plural node; determining at a first node in the route, a predicted path to a subsequent node in the route; verifying correctness of the predicted path based on analyzing route information in the packet; initiating routing of the packet according to the predicted path by configuring an output multiplexer of the first node to speculatively select an input port from which to route the packet, concurrently with verifying the correctness of the predicted path based on analyzing route information in the packet; and in response to results of verifying the correctness of the predicted path, either completing the routing of the packet according to the predicted path, when the path was correctly predicted or initiating a routing of the packet according to an actual path based on the route information in the packet when the path was not correctly predicted.