Qlogic Assigned Patent

Qlogic Corp., Aliso Viejo, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,467,395) developed by Manoj K. Wadekar, San Jose, CA, Edward C. McGlaughlin, Minneapolis, MN, and Gaurav Agarwal, Los Altos, CA, for a "method and system for link aggregation."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and system for a first network device and a second network device is provided. The first network device and the second network device communicate with each other via a plurality of network links. A network packet field for applying a hashing technique for selecting one of the network links to transmit the network packet is negotiated between the first network device and the second network device. The hashing technique is identified for selecting the selected network link. The first network device and the second network device, prior to applying the hashing technique exchange hashing parameters."

The patent application was filed on July 12, 2011 (13/181,251).