Management of ATM virtual circuits with resources reservation protocol

Patent 6021263 Issued on February 1, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 16, 2016. Estimated 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.

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Inventors

Application

No. 602428 filed on 02/16/1996

US Classes:

709/232, Computer-to-computer data transfer regulating370/409, Employing logical addressing for routing (e.g., VP or VC)709/228, Session/connection parameter setting709/243Decentralized controlling

Examiners

Primary: Asta, Frank J.
Assistant: Patru, Daniel

International Classes

G06F 013/33
G06F 015/17

Abstract

A method and apparatus for use in a network utilizing Internet Protocol (IP), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocol is provided. An intelligent policy mapping database (PMD) accessible at the network level by both the RSVP and ATM protocol stacks maps RSVP parameters to ATM parameters with input from factors outside of the RSVP or ATM protocol stacks, e.g., general customer data. With the basis of customer data or other information outside of the RSVP and ATM protocol stacks, a network reservation message to the PMD contains RSVP flow specifications which are mapped to correlated ATM Quality of Service (QoS) parameters.