Bit of an odd question here.
I was reading a networking related patent, US 7,142,509 B1, which describes adding a "stream processing module" to a switch to help reduce the amount of client traffic that needs to be sent directly to the server offering up the stream.
As of yet I can not find any implementation of this idea in the wild. The invention is a bit before my time in networking so I may just be missing something obvious but from googling I can not find any products that ever made use of a module like the one in the patent.
Has anyone ever seen a device with something like that inside it or did ExtremeNetworks just invent and patent something they never actually used?
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