Patent ID: 8144709
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for processing content of an Internet Protocol (IP) packet, said method comprising: extracting an IP source address and an IP destination address from the IP packet; extracting a payload from the IP packet; concatenating the IP source address, the IP destination address, and the payload to generate concatenated IP data comprising the IP source address, the IP destination address, and the payload; and generating an IP frame, said generating the IP frame comprising encapsulating, within the IP frame, the concatenated IP data between a preamble field and an error checking field, wherein the preamble field identifies a start of the IP frame, wherein the multiple ports comprise a plurality of access ports and a plurality of interswitch ports, wherein each access port is identified by a port identifier and is connected to a corresponding host in a Local Area Network (LAN), wherein the interswitch ports are configured to be statically connected to routers within an Internet to connect the routers together in connections that cannot be overwritten by a dynamic learning process, wherein the IP switch is configured to have routes through the access ports dynamically learned and overwritten, and wherein the IP switch does not comprise a Media Access Control (MAC) table that associates a MAC address of each host in the LAN with each host's associated port identifier.