Patent ID: 6804201
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of packet switching in a network having a plurality of routers for routing data packets between source and destination including the steps of:generating a smart data packet having source and destination data and containing a learning algorithm for learning a route from the source to the destination; transmitting said generated smart data packet over said network of routers from said source to said destination for learning a path of routers from said source to destination; transferring said path of routers learned from said smart data packet to an acknowledgement packet; transmitting said acknowledgement packet along a reverse route of the path of routers transferred from said smart data packet to said acknowledgement packet; generating a dumb data packet of data at said source having the predetermined route from said acknowledgement packet; and sending said dumb data packet along the predetermined route determined by the smart data packet from the source to the destination; whereby a network uses smart data packets, acknowledgement packets and dumb data packets in the transmission of data from a source to a destination.