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US Patent 4953162 - Multipath local area network
US Patent Issued on August 28, 1990
Estimated Patent Expiration Date:
August 28, 2007Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
Estimated Patent Expiration Date:
August 28, 2007Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.AbstractA local area network which is multi-path in nature and uses many small programmed nodes interconnected by low bandwidth cables with a typical data transfer rate of 9600 BPS. Connections between pairs of devices on the network are obtained by a flooding technique at the start of communications which is performed by a network control program resident in each node. Data transmitted between devices connected to the network is packetized and routed through the network via the nodes identified by the flooding operation. Packet transmission through node output ports is buffered and multiplexed so as to reduce degradation in response time by heavy traffic monopolizing a node output port. | InventorsApplicationNo. 089549 filed on 08/26/1987US Classes:370/245, Of a local area network370/255, Using a particular learning algorithm or technique370/393Address concatenationExaminersPrimary: Olms, Douglas W.Assistant: Chin, Wellington Attorney, Agent or FirmUS Patent References4380063, Flow control mechanism for block switching nodesIssued on: 04/12/1983 Inventor: Janson , et al.4399531Distributed digital data communications network Issued on: 08/16/1983 Inventor: Grande , et al. International ClassesH04J 003/24H04J 003/02 |
