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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5621721 | Maintaining database integrity throughout a communication network A communication network with a database consistency mechanism is disclosed, wherein a sequence number and a set of routing information for each of a set of virtual circuits of the communication network are maintained in a main database and an auxiliary da... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5617417 | Asynchronous transfer mode communication in inverse multiplexing over multiple communication links An asynchronous transfer mode inverse multiplexed communication system is disclosed wherein a series of communication cells are multiplexed over a set of communication links. Each communication cell includes a framing bit of a predetermined framing bit st... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5570360 | Method and apparatus for implementing communication service contract using cell arrival information To simplify the service decision made in a queue based digital switch, a method and apparatus is introduced that makes service decisions based upon the history of incoming cells. The apparatus includes a minimum service rate circuit that monitors the rate... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5561663 | Method and apparatus for performing communication rate control using geometric weighted groups A method for performing rate control for digital communication systems. A server serves N connection queues where each connection queue has accumulation rate ai. Each credit accumulation rate ai is divided into a set of binary coeffi... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5430715 | Flexible destination address mapping mechanism in a cell switching communication controller A mechanism for routing a communication cell in a cell switching communication controller that employs multiple path identifier masking functions selected by a header control field in the communication cell and that employs a content addressable memory co... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5422880 | Broadband switching fabric in a communication controller A method and apparatus for exchanging communication cells in a communication controller, wherein an arbiter determines transmission requests for each of a plurality of communication modules in the communication controller. Each communication module has a ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5359592 | Bandwidth and congestion control for queue channels in a cell switching communication controller A mechanism for buffering communication cells in a communication controller, wherein a cell queuing circuit provides a cell loss priority mechanism, and wherein the cell queuing circuit determines service states for queue channels according to bandwidth a... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5317562 | Method and apparatus for routing cell messages using delay A method and apparatus for use in a cell network node for initial routing and rerouting of connections to a slave node based on ordering candidate slave connections, searching existing connections for candidate best routes and validating the selected best... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5313454 | Congestion control for cell networks A feedback control system for congestion prevention in a cell (packet) switching communication network is described. Congestion control is accomplished by controlling the transmission rate of bursty traffic in the presence of high priority, voice, low spe... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5274643 | Method for optimizing a network having virtual circuit routing over virtual paths Virtual circuits are routed and grouped into virtual paths during an interactive topology design process. Virtual circuits are assigned to virtual paths that provide minimum cost to each pass through a topology design. Virtual paths are dispersed into sub... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5274635 | Method and apparatus for aligning a digital communication data stream across a cell network A method and apparatus for aligning a digital communication data stream across a cell network, wherein plurality of timeslot samples are generated by sampling the digital communication data stream transferred over a first circuit-switching communication l... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5243342 | Integrated PCM level control and conversion using a lookup table A method and apparatus for converting a signal by reading a first signal that is represented in a first format. The first signal is used as an index into a lookup table, the first table containing entries representing signals in a second format modified b... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5224099 | Circuitry and method for fair queuing and servicing cell traffic using hopcounts and traffic classes A method of fair queuing and servicing cell traffic in a telecommunication node which interfaces with a telecommunication system including a multiplicity of nodes is described. The steps include placing cells of traffic are placed in a queue according to ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5128945 | Packet framing using cyclic redundancy checking Packets transported over a serial data stream need to have their start and stop information encoded so that they can be parsed by the receiving device. Techniques used in various standards require extra bandwidth to carry this information. For framed data... | 07/07/1992 |
