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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5633869 | Virtual network using asynchronous transfer mode Asynchronous Transfer Mode Local Area Network (ATM LAN). The ATM LAN is implemented as a set of MAC entities which share a common group address space for the purposes of establishing multicast connections. Each station has one or more ATM MAC entities per... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5457687 | Method and apparatus for backward explicit congestion notification (BECN) in an ATM network Reactive congestion control in an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network where the network is formed by the interconnection of nodes each including a forward path for transfer of information from source to destination through the network and a return pa... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5444702 | Virtual network using asynchronous transfer mode Asynchronous Transfer Mode Local Area Network (ATM LAN). The ATM LAN is implemented as a set of MAC entities which share a common group address space for the purposes of establishing multicast connections. Each station has one or more ATM MAC entities per... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5396491 | Self-routing switching element and fast packet switch A self-routing switching element in a packet switch functions in a packet synchronous mode in which a plurality of the incoming packet signals are switched by the switching element concurrently during a common time period. For each incoming packet signal ... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5379297 | Concurrent multi-channel segmentation and reassembly processors for asynchronous transfer mode A communication unit for concurrently processing cells in an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. Packets are segmented into a plurality of cells concurrently for a plurality of channels for transmission over the (ATM) network. Cells received from th... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5367518 | Self-routing switching element and fast packet switch A self-routing switching element in a packet switch functions in a packet synchronous mode in which a plurality of the incoming packet signals are switched by the switching element concurrently during a common time period. For each incoming packet signal ... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5245603 | High-speed determining unit for prioritizing and arbitrating among competing input signals A determining unit in a computer, communication of other system for determining which one of a plurality of requests by competing input signals is to be honored. The determining unit includes a priority and an arbiter unit with a plurality of stages of ar... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5049873 | Communications network state and topology monitor A system gathers and displays information concerning status of a communications network without overloading the communications channels in the network. The monitoring system includes a monitor node, including an operator input interface. The monitor node ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5008814 | Method and apparatus for updating system software for a plurality of data processing units in a communication network In maintaining a communication network of processing units distributed in multiple nodes linked by communication channels, system software in a plurality of data processing units is updated by first installing the updated software in a first node. The upd... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4965788 | Self-routing switch element for an asynchronous time switch The switching element (16) comprises a plurality of selectors (32) each having an input for a tagged packet signal and a plurality of arbiters (34) each having an output for a transmitted packet signal. Between each selector (32) and each arbiter (34) is ... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4890282 | Mixed mode compression for data transmission In an integrated digital network with at least three nodes, A, B, and C, a call placed at node A to be transmitted through the network from node A to node B to node C, is compressed in multiple modes. In response to the path selected, the speech signal in... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4847830 | Method and apparatus for automatic loading of a data set in a node of a communication network In a communication network, including a first node and a plurality of neighbor nodes that are linked by communication channels to the first node, a data set is retrieved from neighbor nodes according to the following process: 1. identifying the data set t... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4712217 | System for transmitting digital information and maintaining a minimum paulse density A system having an encoder and a decoder for transmitting ordered data blocks therebetween and for maintaining a minimum pulse density without increasing the bit error rate (BER). The encoder detects critical word having zeros in all bit positions except ... | 12/08/1987 |
