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Nortel Networks Corporation

Bay Networks, Inc.

Bobby J Johnson

Mike K Noll

Randy Ryals

Jeff Prince

Earl Ferguson

Michael Yip

Michael L Goguen

Brush

A self-cleaning brush assembly for grooming and cleaning pets has a main body and a pair of contoured handle portions depending therefrom. The main body has a plurality of bristles that extend through a scrub pad and a cleaning element. The scrub pad and the cleaning element both have a plurality of openings that are configured to receive the plurality of bristles. The brush assembly is also self-cleaning and capable of removing pet hair from the bristles. As the brush assembly is lifted off the pet, the resilient cleaning element flexes away from the main body, moving the scrub pad with it over the bristles. The movement of the scrub pad functions to clean the bristles and deposit the entrained pet hair onto the outer surface of the scrub pad.

Self-cleaning pet grooming scrub brush

Scrub brush

Cleaning sponge

A hollow housing has a closed top, a closed back, a pair of side walls formed integrally with the closed top and the closed back, an open front and an open bottom. The open front is adapted to abuttingly engage a flat exterior surface of a wall of a building. The open bottom receives an uppermost end of a vertically oriented conduit. A throughbore is formed in the wall so that at least one cable enters the vertically oriented conduit from a lowermost end, extends through the lumen of the conduit, makes a gentle right angle bend in the hollow housing, and extends through the throughbore into the interior of the building. Sealant is then introduced into the hollow housing through a port formed in the closed top to seal the throughbore.

Conduit wall interface with sealant port

In a data network, a source node transmits a data packet to a destination node across interconnected switches whereby a switch, upon receiving the data packet from the source node, queries other switches in the network for the appropriate switch and port on the switch out which to forward the data packet to the destination node. The appropriate switch responds to the query with its switch number and the port number of the port out which the data packet should be sent to reach the destination node. The querying switch caches the switch number and port number and prepends a destination tag to subsequent data packets it receives which are destined to the same destination node, thereby providing a distributed system among the switches in the network for maintaining detailed information regarding the appropriate switch and port out which to forward data packets received by a source node in the network.

Method and apparatus for transmitting data frames between switches in a meshed data network

The switch fabric of the ATM switch, i.e., the ATM switch backplane bus, switches a cell based on routing information provided by the source LAN or ATM module to an output port on a destination LAN or ATM module of the switching hub. In the described system, the ATM switch is preconfigured to provide a fully connected topology between ports of all modules. In one embodiment, ATM cells transmitted across the ATM switch fabric between a source LAN or ATM module and a destination LAN module, e.g., Token Ring, FDDI or Ethernet, is accomplished by way of a routing tag prepended on the ATM cells. The routing tag provides both unicast and multicast group destination information such that the ATM cells are routed to the appropriate port on a given destination module without the need to establish a virtual circuit between the source module and the destination module using VPI/VCIs.

Method and apparatus for transmitting cells across an ATM switch bus

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Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, United States of America

Bobby J Johnson