Switch state reporting

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9203759-B2
Application number	US-201313827780-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2013
Priority date	Nov 7, 2012
Publication date	Dec 1, 2015
Grant date	Dec 1, 2015

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments that relate to a network switch. The network switch obtains a network state metric, the network state metric quantifying a network traffic congestion associated with a switch. The network switch identifies a synchronous time stamp associated with the network state metric and generates an network state reporting message, the network state reporting message comprising the network state metric and the synchronous time stamp. The network state reporting message may be transmitted to a monitoring system.

First claim

Therefore, at least the following is claimed:

1. A system comprising:
processing circuitry implemented in a switch, the processing circuitry being configured to:
determine a network state metric, the network state metric quantifying a network traffic congestion associated with the switch based on a state of data packets being processed at the switch at a specific time;
obtain reference clock data, the reference clock data being associated with a set of switches;
determine a s…

Assignees

• Broadcom Corp

Inventors

• Matthews William Brad
• Kwan Bruce Hui
• Agarwal Puneet

Classifications

• H04L47/11 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L49/15 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic