Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tag conversion apparatus
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Application No.: US14944498Application Date: 2015-11-18
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Publication No.: US09755854B2Publication Date: 2017-09-05
- Inventor: Kazuhiro Maeda , Osamu Takada , Jyunji Kinoshita , Shingo Sugawara , Toshihiko Murakami , Hitoshi Kuwata
- Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2014-251833 20141212
- Main IPC: H04L12/46
- IPC: H04L12/46 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
A controller of a tag conversion apparatus configured holds tag conversion information associating addresses of communication apparatuses and information on tags of tagging schemes for network separation, analyzes a frame input from one of the plurality of ports and determine a current tagging scheme of the frame, determines a tagging scheme associated with a destination address of the frame based on the tag conversion information, and converts the frame to a frame of the tagging scheme associated with the destination address based on the tag conversion information when the tagging scheme associated with the destination address and the current tagging scheme are different.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160173417A1 TAG CONVERSION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-06-16
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