RE: sFlow - AMD Patent Issues

Joe,

I had a quick glance at the AMD patent and it doesn't seem relevant to
sFlow. It appears to cover a form of distributed switching. It's a little
surprising that the patent was granted since the technique has been around a
while, for example see section 2.7 "Intervention Mode" in this data sheet
from Galileo Technologies from 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961105033551/galileot.com/products/48002/48002.pdf.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sflow@sflow.org [mailto:owner-sflow@sflow.org] On Behalf Of Joe
Hawkins
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:44 PM
To: sflow@sflow.org
Subject: [sFlow] sFlow - AMD Patent Issues

It has come to my attention that AMD is asserting patent 6,151,316
against sFlow implementers. Does anyone have any information about
this?

/Thanks for your time
jjh
Received on Fri Jul 15 17:11:58 2005