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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6064674 | Method and apparatus for hardware forwarding of LAN frames over ATM networks A multiported LAN switch comprised of legacy local area network ports and ATM ports. Each ATM port comprising a hardware forwarding engine for bridging LAN frames from the LAN ports to the ATM port. The hardware forwarding engine converts layer 2 protocol... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6061355 | ATM transmission system and method having variable transmission process functions and route configuration An ATM transmitter distributes an ATM transmission process function to plural electronic circuit packages and performs transmission process by forming routes between the plural circuit packages. The routes can be flexibly varied while a configuration of a... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6055238 | Packet terminal and packet communication network A communication network system comprising pairs of connection lines (3) composed of input lines and output lines, a switchboard (1) which relays a packet received from one of the input lines to one of the output lines specified by the header information c... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6044061 | Method and apparatus for fair and efficient scheduling of variable-size data packets in an input-buffered multipoint switch An input-buffered multipoint switch having input channels and output channels includes multi-level request buffers, a data path multiplexer, and a scheduler. The switch has a distinct multi-level request buffer associated with each input channel and each ... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6041356 | Method and apparatus for detecting network traffic and initiating a dial-up connection using separate upstream and downstream devices In a client having (i) an upstream device driver for controlling an upstream device which sends data to a server; (ii) a downstream device driver for controlling a downstream device which receives data from the server; and (iii) a dialer application for e... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6038237 | Voice signal transmitting method and exchange system using this This relates to a voice signal transmitting method and exchange system using this whereby excellent speech quality can be maintained by reducing the celling delay on voice compression and celling/decelling delay on relay-exchanging. Voice compression/fram... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6023469 | Idle address controller for shared buffer type ATM switch An idle address controller for a shared buffer type ATM switch controls the addresses of output cells in a common memory to be stored directly in an idle address buffer without passing through the conventional idle address delay controller, by improving t... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6016317 | ATM cell switching system An ATM switching system comprises a switch unit including a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports having the same cell transmission rate, and a multiplexer for multiplexing cell trains outputted from at least two output ports into a sin... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6005866 | Scheduler utilizing dynamic schedule table An asynchronous transfer mode scheduler schedules connection utilizing available bit rate (ABR) modes of traffic, unspecified bit rate (UBR) modes of traffic, variable bit rate (VBR) modes of traffic, and constant bit rate (CBR) modes of traffic. The sche... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6005865 | Optical network unit for communicating telephony and video information A telephone and video telecommunications distribution network (10) includes a telecommunications switch (12) and an optical network unit configuration (20b). The telecommunications switch (12) receives telephony traffic at a common control section (14) an... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5982776 | Multipoint-to-point arbitration in a network switch An apparatus and a method are disclosed for arbitrating between streams of ATM cells, or sources for a connection, on multiple input port processors vying for an opportunity to be transmitted as a fixed bandwidth, or allocated, connection on a single outp... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5953315 | ATM cell sending system An ATM cell sending system includes a first memory, a second memory, a retrieval circuit, and a memory control circuit. The first memory temporarily stores an input cell, outputs a cell storage address, and, in response to input of the cell storage addres... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5949785 | Network access communications system and methodology A digital switching system is provided for coupling with one or more external specific physical interface data signal sources regardless of signal protocol, and includes input subsystems for receiving and processing the data signal sources into data cells... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5946314 | Method of expanding the capacity of switching elements, and switching stage obtained by the method The capacity of switching elements, for instance 8×8 elements, is expanded, to originate single-stage elements with greater capacity (16×16 or 32×32), by arranging an even plurality of such elements in an output substage and by placing upstream of the ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5936957 | ATM communication system with a modular structure An ATM communication system with a modular structure for the switching of packeted cells (Z) between ATM communication terminals (KE) over dial-up or fixed connections has a switching device (SB) and a remote control device (CB). Arranged in the switching... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5936954 | Method for assignment of input port numbers in 3-dimension Banyan switching network of asynchronous transfer mode Input port numbers are assigned so as to allow formation of a unit switch having a given scale of module characteristic for a 3-dimensional installation of a switching network in an asynchronous transfer mode on basis of the Banyan network. A multiplicity... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5923657 | ATM switching system and cell control method An ATM switching system which includes PVC allocation circuits corresponding to output queues. At the time of arrival of the leading cell of each burst data, if the output line has room, the PVC of the burst data is stored as information for admission and... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5889779 | Scheduler utilizing dynamic schedule table An asynchronous transfer mode scheduler schedules connection utilizing available bit rate (ABR) modes of traffic, unspecified bit rate (UBR) modes of traffic, variable bit rate (VBR) modes of traffic, and constant bit rate (CBR) modes of traffic. The sche... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5872786 | ATM communication system, process migration method in the ATM communication system, and handover processing method An ATM communication system has a connection setting section for controlling a plurality of ATM switches to set an n:n bidirectional ATM connection having n terminals of a plurality of constituent terminals as terminal points and using the VPI/VCI for ide... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5872785 | Method for switching narrowband partial line bundles between communications systems via an ATM communication network Message and signaling information (ni, si) of partial line bundles (TLB1..3) of a line bundle (LB) of a communication system (KS1..3), which line bundle have a central signaling channel (CCS), are switched to additional communication systems (KS1..3) via ... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5870538 | Switch fabric controller comparator system and method A switch fabric controller comparator system (200) is provided for comparing the contents of a foreground port mapping memory (25) and a background port mapping memory (125). The switch fabric controller comparator system (200) includes the foreground por... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5867677 | Switching adapter and method for a computer system A function of a switch apparatus is realized as an adapter. Signaling data which cannot be processed in the adapter, is output to a mainframe bus of a computer through an AAL controller, a RAM, and a bus controller. The computer processes the signaling da... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5850395 | Asynchronous transfer mode based service consolidation switch An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) based service consolidation switch (10) includes an input/output module (22) having a to-switch port (TSPP) processor (90) and a from-switch port processor (FSPP) (92). The TSPP (90) and the FSPP (92) communicate with a... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5831973 | Multicast connection control method and apparatus A multicast connection control apparatus provided in a branching-and-consolidating node connecting a source terminal to a plurality of destination terminals for branching information over the forward connection or consolidating information over the backwa... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5825773 | Switching system for transferring broadcast packet held in broadcast buffer received from input port to output ports according to the state of each output port In a method of transferring packets in a network for a parallel processor system handling a one-to-one transfer packet to be transferred from a processor to another processor and a broadcast packet to be transferred from a processor to a plurality of othe... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5818840 | Asymmetric ATM switch One embodiment of the invention is an ATM switch comprising a switch fabric, a controller, a buffer, a plurality of input line cards and a plurality of output line cards. The input line cards comprise input connectors and output connectors, with the numbe... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5796795 | Data transferring circuit which aligns clock and data A network (10) includes a broadband customer service module (B-CSM) (20). The B-CSM (20) includes a plurality of feeder interface cards (FICs) (36) and optical line cards (OLCS) (38) which are coupled together through a midplane assembly (34) so that each... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5790539 | ASIC chip for implementing a scaleable multicast ATM switch An application specific integrated circuit (or "ASIC") chip for building a scaleable, multicast, asynchronous transfer mode (or "ATM") switch having on the order of 100 to a few thousand input and output ports. The ATM switch has a regular structure and m... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5790545 | Efficient output-request packet switch and method A method (1200, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800) and packet switch (500, 600, 700, 1400,1900, 2000) for efficient switching of a plurality of received packets from a plurality of ingress ports to a plurality of egress ports, using the steps of: A) storing the pack... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5784372 | Scheduling connections across a switching matrix A switching matrix has a plurality of inputs and outputs which may be connected to each other. Pairs of inputs and outputs are examined sequentially to determine whether a connection can be made across the matrix. If the evaluated input and output are bus... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5781549 | Method and apparatus for switching data packets in a data network A local area network switch which implements packet segmentation and reassembly for cell-based switching on a backplane cell bus. A plurality of packet processing units are each coupled to a backplane cell bus wherein each packet processing unit hosts a p... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5774453 | Input/output buffer type ATM switch The input/output buffer type ATM switch capable of traffic control depending on the traffic type at the time of cell congestion is provided. There are provided an input buffer memory and an output buffer memory for storing cells at each of a plurality of ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5748631 | Asynchronous transfer mode cell processing system with multiple cell source multiplexing Methods and apparatus for processing cells in an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) communication system. An ATM cell processor implements a "bubble" count technique which efficiently accommodates multiple layers of scheduling requests and/or external cell ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5732085 | Fixed length packet switching apparatus using multiplexers and demultiplexers The present invention relates to a fixed length packet switching apparatus using multiplexers and demultiplexers in which the apparatus has an output buffer-type construction, protects itself from a temporary overflow occurrence of an output terminal and ... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5729536 | Cellular system architectures supporting data services Four stages of digital cellular architecture are presented which reuse much of the existing voice infrastructure while allowing graceful introduction of data and integrated voice/data services over industry standard, low cost platforms. First, a separate ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5724348 | Efficient hardware/software interface for a data switch A data switch is described with a multi-port data switching element, one or more input/output adapters for receiving user data cells from outside the switch and for transmitting cells switched through the switching element to a network outside the switch,... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5703879 | ATM switching arrangement An ATM telecommunications switch includes a plurality of parallel data switching planes and a parallel central plane, each plane having an equal number of input ports and output ports and a central switching unit to switch each input port to any output po... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5677906 | ATM communication systems AN ATM communication system having both dynamic bandwidth allocation capability comprising storage mechanism for DBA traffic, the storage mechanism further including dedicated storage mechanism for ABR traffic. The system being such that ABR bandwidth req... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5671213 | Duplicated arrangement for ATM switching system In a duplicated arrangement for an ATM switching system, first and second store-and-forward buffers are provided for storing and forwarding an ATM cell stream and first and second counters are responsive to a timing signal for producing a first cell count... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5666361 | ATM cell forwarding and label swapping method and apparatus The techniques required to switch an ATM cell between an input adapter and an output adapter are enhanced by performing two look-up operations. The first look-up operation is performed in the input adapter which receives the cell to be switched. The first... | 09/09/1997 |
