Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7733811 | Method and system for bridging traffic in a resilient packet ring network A method for bridging traffic over a network includes receiving, at stations that are coupled to the network, forwarding information for remote devices that are coupled to the network via the stations. The forwarding information associates a remote address of each r... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7697436 | Bandwidth allocation In certain embodiments, a method for bandwidth allocation includes receiving at least a first traffic flow and a second traffic flow, each traffic flow including at least committed information rate (CIR) and excess information rate (EIR) parameters. The CIR paramete... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7283487 | Transmission slot allocation method and map for virtual tunnels in a transmission line In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a map of transmission slots for a port of a network element includes a plurality of hierarchical sets of port transmission slots. The hierarchical sets include a plurality of parent sets. Each parent set ha... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7245585 | Method and system for transmitting traffic in a virtual tunnel of a transmission line A network element for a telecommunications network includes a port for connection to a transmission line of the telecommunications network. A plurality of transmission line interfaces each include a scheduler to transmit traffic in port transmission slots allocated ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 6665301 | Transmission slot allocation method and map for virtual tunnels in a transmission line In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a map of transmission slots for a port of a network element includes a plurality of hierarchical sets of port transmission slots. The hierarchical sets include a plurality of parent sets. Each pa... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6477167 | Method and system for allocating bandwith to real-time variable bit rate (rt-VBR) traffic A method for allocating transmission bandwidth to a group of real-time variable bit rate connections includes determining an acceptable cell loss probability for a real-time variable bit rate group based on quality of service requirements for real-time va... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6442164 | Method and system for allocating bandwidth and buffer resources to constant bit rate (CBR) traffic A method for allocating transmission resources to a constant rate connection includes determining a maximum cell clumping value for a constant rate connection based on a peak cell rate and a cell delay variation tolerance for the constant rate connection.... | 08/27/2002 |
