1. A method comprising:
losing a connection with a controller by a switch device;
entering a particular mode by the switch device;
transferring flow entries of the switch device to one or more tables; and
notifying network application protocols that correspond to the transferred flow entries.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein particular mode comprises a legacy switching mode.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more tables comprise switch forwarding tables.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising: removing the flow entries of the switch device after the transferring of the flow entries to the switch forwarding tables is completed.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the switch device comprises an Ethernet switch device and an interface for adding and removing the flow entries.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the switch device transitions from an OpenFlow switching mode to the legacy switching mode upon losing the connection with the controller.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein functionality of the flow entries are maintained by using the switch forwarding tables.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein flooding is decreased based on processing incoming packets using the flow entries stored in the forwarding tables.
9. A computer program product for switch device processing upon communication loss, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readableexecutable by a processor to perform a method comprising:
losing a connection with a controller by a switch device;
entering a particular mode by the switch device;
transferring flow entries of the switch device to one or more tables; and
notifying network application protocols that correspond to the transferred flow entries.
10. The program of claim 9, wherein particular mode comprises a legacy switching mode.
11. The program of claim 10, wherein the one or more tables comprise switch forwarding tables.
12. The program of claim 11, further comprising: removing the flow entries of the switch device after the transferring of the flow entries to the switch forwarding tables is completed.
13. The program of claim 12, wherein the switch device comprises an Ethernet switch device and an interface for adding and removing the flow entries.
14. The program of claim 13, wherein the switch device transitions from an OpenFlow switching mode to the legacy switching mode upon losing the connection with the controller.
15. The program of claim 14, wherein functionality of the flow entries are maintained by using the switch forwarding tables, and flooding is decreased based on processing incoming packets using the flow entries stored in the forwarding tables.
16. A system comprising:
a controller device; and
a plurality of connected switch devices coupled with the controller, wherein upon a particular switch device losing communication with the controller, the particular switch device transfers one or more flow entries to one or more forwarding tables and notifies one or more network application protocols that correspond to the transferred one or more flow entries.
17. The system of claim 16, wherein the flow entries of the switch device are removed after the one or more flow entries are transferred to the forwarding tables.
18. The system of claim 17, wherein the particular switch device comprises an Ethernet switch device including an interface for adding and removing the one or more flow entries.
19. The system of claim 18, wherein the switch device transitions from an OpenFlow switching mode to a legacy switching mode upon losing communication with the controller device.
20. The system of claim 19, wherein functionality of the one or more flow entries are maintained by using the forwarding tables, and flooding is decreased based on processing incoming packets to the particular switch device using the flow entries stored in the forwarding tables.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of forming a printable media sheet construction, comprising:
(a) cutting cross-direction lines through a cardstock web;
(b) after (a), laminating a plurality of strips to the cardstock web;
(c) after (b), cutting machine-direction lines through the cardstock web and to the strips on the opposite side of the cardstock web; and
(d) after (c), sheeting the cardstock web into sheets, wherein the cross-direction lines and the machine-direction lines divide the cardstock web into individual separable printable cards on each of the sheets.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising before (a), printing indicia on the cardstock web.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising calendering an edge of the cardstock web.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the calendering is before (a).
5. The method of claim 3 wherein the calendering is after (b) and before (c).
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the laminating uses ultraremovable adhesive.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the laminating is in the machine direction.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein an ink jet color-optimized coating is on a front face of the cardstock web.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the cardstock web includes a laser color-optimized coating on a front face thereof.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the cardstock web includes an adhesive receptive coating on a rear face thereof.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein an infeed end strip of one of the strips is calendered.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein an infeed end strip of one of the strips is parallel to and spaced approximately a quarter of an inch inward from an infeed edge of the cardstock web.
13. The method of claim 1 wherein the cardstock web includes a printer-receptive front coat and a back side adhesive-receptive coat.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein the laminating uses ultraremovable adhesive, the front coat is approximately 1.0 mil thick, the cardstock web is approximately 7.0\u20139.2 mils thick, the ultraremovable adhesive is approximately 0.20\u20130.25 mil thick, the adhesive-receptive coat is approximately 0.1\u20130.5 mil thick, and the strips are approximately 2.8\u20134.0 mils thick.
15. The method of claim 1 wherein the individual separable printable cards are arranged in a pair of columns with the cards in each column abutting adjacent cards in that column and sharing a common cut line.
16. The method of claim 1 wherein the sheets are 8\xbd\xd711, 8\xbd\xd714 or A4 sheets.
17. The method of claim 1 wherein the strips are paper strips.
18. A method of forming a printable media sheet construction, comprising:
(a) cutting cross-direction lines through a cardstock web;
(b) after (a), laminating a plurality of strips to the cardstock web with adhesive directly between the strips and the cardstock web; and
(c) after (b), cutting machine-direction lines through the cardstock web and to the strips on the opposite side of the cardstock web.
19. The method of claim 18 further comprising before (a), printing indicia on the cardstock web.
20. The method of claim 18 further comprising calendering an edge of the cardstock web.
21. The method of claim 20 wherein the calendering is before (a).
22. The method of claim 20 wherein the calendering is after (b) and before (c).
23. The method of claim 18 wherein the adhesive is an ultraremovable adhesive.
24. The method of claim 18 further comprising after (c), sheeting the cardstock web into sheets.
25. The method of claim 24 wherein the cardstock web includes a printer-receptive front coat and a back side adhesive-receptive coat.
26. The method of claim 24 wherein the sheets area 8\xbd\xd711, 8\xbd\xd714 or A4 sheets.
27. The method of claim 24 wherein the cross-direction lines and the machine-direction lines divide the cardstock web into individual printable cards on each of the sheets.
28. The method of claim 27 wherein the individual printable cards on each of the sheets are arranged in a pair of columns with the cards in each column abutting adjacent cards in that column and sharing a common cut line.
29. The method of claim 18 wherein the cross-direction lines and the machine-direction lines divide at least part of the cardstock web into individual printable cards.
30. The method of claim 18 wherein an ink jet color-optimized coating is on a front face of the cardstock web.
31. The method of claim 18 wherein the cardstock web includes a laser color-optimized coating on a front face thereof.
32. The method of claim 18 wherein the cardstock web includes an adhesive receptive coating on a rear face thereof.
33. The method of claim 18 wherein an infeed end strip of one of the strips is parallel to and spaced approximately a quarter of an inch inward from an infeed edge of the cardstock web.
34. The method of claim 18 wherein the cardstock web includes a printer-receptive front coat and a back side adhesive-receptive coat.
35. The method of claim 34 wherein the adhesive is ultraremovable adhesive, the front coat is approximately 1.0 mil thick, the cardstock web is approximately 7.0\u20139.2 mils thick, the ultraremovable adhesive is approximately 0.20\u20130.25 mil thick, the adhesive-receptive coat is approximately 0.1\u20130.5 mil thick, and the strips are approximately 2.8\u20134.0 mils thick.
36. The method of claim 18 wherein the strips are paper strips.
37. The method of claim 18 wherein the laminating is in the machine direction.
38. A method of forming a printable media sheet construction, comprising:
(a) cutting cross-direction lines through a cardstock web;
(b) after (a), laminating a plurality of strips to the cardstock web;
(c) after (b), cutting machine-direction lines through the cardstock web and to the strips on the opposite side of the cardstock web; and
calendering an edge of the cardstock web.
39. The method of claim 38 wherein the calendering is before (a).
40. The method of claim 38 wherein the calendering is after (b) and before (c).
41. The method of claim 38 wherein the laminating uses ultraremovable adhesive.
42. The method of claim 38 further comprising after (c), sheeting the cardstock web into sheets.
43. The method of claim 38 wherein the cross-direction lines and the machine-direction lines divide at least part of the cardstock web into individual printable cards.
44. A method of forming a printable media sheet construction, comprising:
(a) cutting cross-direction lines through a cardstock web;
(b) after (a), laminating a plurality of ships using ultraremovable adhesive to the cardstock web; and
(c) after (b), culling machine-direction lines through the cardstock web and to the strips on the opposite side of the cardstock web.
45. The method of claim 44 wherein an ink jet color-optimized coating is on a front face of the cardstock web.
46. The method of claim 44 wherein the cardstock web includes a laser color-optimized coating on a front face thereof.
47. The method of claim 44 wherein the strips are paper strips.
48. The method of claim 44 further comprising after (c), sheeting the cardstock web into sheets.
49. The method of claim 48 wherein the sheets are 8\xbd\xd711, 8\xbd\xd714 or A4 sheets.
50. The method of claim 48 wherein the cross-direction lines and the machine-direction lines divide the cardstock web into individual printable cards on each of the sheets.
51. The method of claim 50 wherein the individual printable cards on each of the sheets are arranged in a pair of columns with the cards in each column abutting adjacent cards in that column and sharing a common cut line.
52. The method of claim 44 wherein the cross-direction lines and the machine-direction lines divide at least part of the cardstock web into individual printable cards.