Patent ID: 7742420
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A transmission device for forwarding aggregate traffic streams towards a destination point, an aggregate traffic stream being comprised of a plurality of packets, said transmission device comprising: an input for receiving the aggregate traffic streams; an output for forwarding the aggregate traffic streams to the destination point; a control unit operative to: a) generate for each packet of each aggregate traffic stream passing from said input to said output a unique packet identifier for distinguishing the respective packet from all of the other packets, by extracting at least a portion of the contents of the respective packet to serve as said packet identifier, wherein said at least a portion of the contents of the respective packet is not specifically designated for packet identification purposes within the respective packet; b) maintain a record of the generated packet identifiers; c) forward the aggregate traffic streams to the destination point without adding any data elements to the packets of the aggregate traffic streams.