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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5583857 | Connection admission control method and system in a network for a bandwidth allocation based on the average cell rate A connection admission control method for allocating many calls to a transmission line while guaranteeing the quality of service such as the cell loss ratio, where an average cell rate/peak cell rate comparator judges that a call requesting admission has ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5548580 | Method and aparatus for recovering a variable bit rate service clock A method of converting a variable bit rate of a transmitted sequence of cells having F cells per frame and a peak cell transmission rate P into an effective peak rate of transmitted cells for each frame. The steps include determining a number of ghost cel... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5524006 | Second-order leaky bucket device and method for traffic management in cell relay networks A traffic management policing device (TMPD) (600) and method (TMPM) (700) monitor and substantially enforce a sustainable cell rate (SCR) and burst tolerance (BT) in a cell relay network utilizing a second-order leaky bucket system in conjunction with a p... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5521971 | Communication network control method A communication network (1) comprises a number of network nodes (2, 3, 4 and 5) linked together by transmission paths (6, 7 and 8). A network manager (9) controls acceptance of calls onto transmission paths by classifying an incoming call and selecting fr... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5475615 | Method and system for sizing interactive video delivery systems A method and system for determining the required number of active video circuits in an interactive video delivery network required to meet the specified blocking probability constraints. By determining peak loading hours as well as the number of system su... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5448567 | Control architecture for ATM networks A control method and architecture is described for an ATM network carrying connectionless data traffic. The method is capable of integrating connection-oriented as well as connectionless traffic. The method takes advantage of the quasi-deterministic natur... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5400336 | Method for controlling the delivery from cells There is assigned to each virtual circuit a period (pm) corresponding to the theoretical minimum period between two consecutive cells of the virtual circuit and a maximum time limit (dm). The imaginary time of emission on the output multiplex of the last ... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5381407 | Method and system for controlling user traffic to a fast packet switching system A method and system are provided for controlling user traffic to a fast packet switching system using the leaky bucket scheme. Each of the packets (53 byte length cell) originates at a source of packets and has a virtual channel identifier (VCI). The meth... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5363374 | Method for allocating resources by anticipated reservation in an integrated service satellite network This invention relates to a method for allocating a resource in a periodic frame of an asynchronous digital satellite network, to each of cell bursts of sporadic connections which are transmitted by earth stations. Allocation requests for resources, such ... | 11/08/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5341366 | Connection admission control system In an ATM switching system responsive to a call setup request from each of B-ISDN terminals, a band for an accepted call is estimated in accordance with fuzzy decision on the basis of the fact that the network traffic characteristics can be determined emp... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5295135 | Arrangement for monitoring the bit rate in ATM networks For dual leaky bucket ATM bit rate monitoring, a peak bit rate is monitored in a first leaky bucket unit and a maximum cell plurality of a full rate burst is defined. A duration of peak rate bursts is monitored in a second leaky bucket unit with a first c... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5274625 | Traffic measurements in packet communications networks A packet communications network relies on a few simple parameters to characterize the wide variety of traffic offered to that network, such as peak bit rate, mean bit rate and average packet burst length. A better representation of many types of traffic r... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5255266 | ATM switching unit A transmission line control processor performs various processes in response to requests of a call processor for capture, allotment, and release of a subscriber line or an inter-station line. Additionally, in response to requests of the call processor for... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5179556 | Bandwidth management and congestion control scheme for multicast ATM networks A bandwidth management and congestion control scheme for a multi-cast ATM network which includes a buffer reservation mechanism comprised of a state machine for association with each virtual circuit set up through the network, the state machine being adap... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5157651 | Apparatus and method for determining line rates Apparatus and methods for automatically determining the bit rate of an incoming signal are provided. The apparatus includes a counter, a logic circuit, and a histogram generating circuit. The counter counts the number of fast reference clock cycles which ... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5132966 | Call control with transmission priority in a packet communication network of an ATM type In a high-speed packet multiplex communication network including a transmission line with a predetermined bandwidth and accommodating a plurality of information sources, the sources having various packet delivery rates over a range of between a peak rate ... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5070498 | Call control system in ATM switch Disclosed is a call control method for use with an ATM switch for integrating and switching various types of information which differ in traffic characteristics, such as voice, data and motion images, using an asynchronous transmission mode (ATM). When a ... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5050163 | Method of ATD (asynchronous time division) switching of data packets and an arrangement for implementing this method A method of ATD switching of data packets according to which various users are connected to a single subscriber line. By providing each data packet for each connection from a user to a receiver with a same identification code, specific information can be ... | 09/17/1991 |
