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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 04781826', 'Application No. 03815236', 'Application No. 04781826', 'Application No. 200480020541', 'Application No. 200380108620', 'Application No. 2003301218', 'Application No. 200380108620']

Patent US7474666 - Switch port analyzers - Google Patents
Methods and devices are provided for non-disruptive monitoring of network traffic through one or more ports of a Fibre Channel network device. Preferred embodiments of the invention are used in conjunction with the switched port analyzer (“SPAN”) and/or remote SPAN (“RSPAN”) features. SPAN mode...http://www.google.com/patents/US7474666?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7474666 - Switch port analyzers
Publication number US7474666 B2
Application number US 10/655,452
Also published as CN1823496A, CN1823496B, EP1668826A1, US8170025, US20050053073, US20090103566, WO2005025134A1
Publication number 10655452, 655452, US 7474666 B2, US 7474666B2, US-B2-7474666, US7474666 B2, US7474666B2
Inventors Raymond J. Kloth, Thomas James Edsall, Kalyan K. Ghosh, Gaurav Rastogi, Dinesh Ganapathy Dutt, Matthew Cressa
Patent Citations (38), Non-Patent Citations (29), Referenced by (50), Classifications (15), Legal Events (5)
US 7474666 B2
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U.S. Classification 370/401, 370/235, 370/241, 370/392
International Classification H04L12/56, H04L12/28, H04L12/26
Cooperative Classification H04L49/555, H04L49/357, H04L43/18, H04L43/00, H04L2212/00
European Classification H04L49/55C, H04L43/00, H04L12/26M