Using link send and receive information to select one of multiple links to use to transfer data for send and receive operations

Link information for a plurality of links to at least one target node indicates for each link a send throughput for sending data, a receive throughput for received data, a slate of the link indicating whether the link is online, offline or degraded. The send throughput of the links having the online...

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Main Authors BISH THOMAS WILLIAM, DAIN JOSEPH WHITNEY, BEESTON RALPH THOMAS, PEAKE JONATHAN WAYNE
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 07.08.2012
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:Link information for a plurality of links to at least one target node indicates for each link a send throughput for sending data, a receive throughput for received data, a slate of the link indicating whether the link is online, offline or degraded. The send throughput of the links having the online state is processed to select one of the links to the receiving node m response to determining that more than one of the links has the online state. The data of the send operation is sent using the selected link to the receiving node. The receive throughput is processed to select one of the links having the online state to the sending node in response to determining that more than one of the links has the online state. The data of the receive operation is received using the selected link to the sending node.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20080243957