US 12,107,770 B2
Compute express link over ethernet in composable data centers
Ayan Banerjee, Fremont, CA (US); Ramesh Sivakolundu, Saratoga, CA (US); Chakradhar Kar, San Jose, CA (US); Sagar Borikar, San Jose, CA (US); and Anant Thakar, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/122,015.
Application 18/122,015 is a continuation of application No. 17/751,210, filed on May 23, 2022, granted, now 11,632,337.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/254,335, filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/254,341, filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/254,365, filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/254,375, filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/254,398, filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/254,367, filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/254,381, filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0224255 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 47/72 (2022.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 47/70 (2022.01); H04L 47/722 (2022.01); H04L 67/141 (2022.01); H04L 67/568 (2022.01); H04L 69/08 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 47/72 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0601 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); H04L 47/722 (2013.01); H04L 47/822 (2013.01); H04L 47/829 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04L 67/568 (2022.05); H04L 69/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a first server device, a request to bind the first server device with a multiple logical device (MLD) appliance;
receiving, from the MLD appliance through an auto-discovery sequence, information about one or more attributes of the MLD appliance;
selecting, from among multiple MLD appliances, the MLD appliance for binding with the first server device, the selecting based at least in part on the information about the one or more attributes of the MLD appliance received through the auto-discovery sequence;
binding the first server device with the MLD appliance using a compute express link (CXL) over ethernet (CXL-E) protocol, the first server device to export a computing resource to the MLD appliance for utilization by a second server device; and
binding the second server device with the MLD appliance using the CXL-E protocol.