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Alcatel

Xylan Corporation

Christopher Leo Hoogenboom

John Daniel Wallner

John W Bailey

Michael Jon Nishimura

Michael K Wilson

Todd Khacherian

Joe Golio

Bob Kowalski

Todd L Khacherian

Jeff Miller

Mike Wilson

Steve Senum

A barrier system for inhibiting marine growth on a submerged component of a boat operates on the principle that limiting the availability of nutrients that marine organisms need to survive and thrive will inhibit the growth of marine organisms. The barrier system, by restricting the exchange of water between the body of water enclosed within the barrier system and the body of water outside of the barrier system, creates and maintains a body of stagnant water which surrounds the submerged component targeted for protection from fouling growth. The submerged component may be a mounting bracket for an outboard engine and the barrier element may be resiliently adjustable in response to the act of tilting the outboard engine.

Barrier system for inhibiting marine growth on submerged component of boat

Initialization of a sensor for monitoring the structural integrity of a building involves the sensor, a gateway and an installer device. An automated initialization brings the sensor online and enables the sensor for remote monitoring without requiring on-site manual configuration. Through the automated initialization, the sensor joins a logical communication group and a GPS location associated with the sensor becomes remotely accessible by a human network administrator.

Initialization of a sensor for monitoring the structural integrity of a building

A data switch includes multiple switching modules interconnected over a backplane. The data switch maintains flow integrity while path transitioning. The flow integrity can be maintained by temporarily disabling one or more of the switching modules from transmitting data units over the backplane for a flow undergoing a path transition. The disable condition is imposed when the path transition is commenced, and is lifted after the path transition is completed and an interval has passed ensuring that all data units for the flow transmitted to the backplane prior to imposing the disable condition have cleared the backplane. The backplane includes a multicast fabric and a unicast fabric, wherein flow path transitions are made from the multicast fabric to the unicast fabric upon source learning. All switching modules are temporarily disabled from transmitting data units having as a destination address an address undergoing source learning to the backplane.

Flow integrity for path transitioning data switch

The present invention, generally speaking, uses input buffering and output control to provide a high-speed, high-performance digital traffic switch. This approach solves all of the problems noted above with respect to the prior art (input buffering/input control, output buffering/output control). Dropped discrete information units (cells) are dropped at the input port, and so will not be transmitted across the switch fabric. This reduces the traffic load on the switch fabric during congested periods, and makes the switch fabric easier to design and expand. Input buffering/output control allows for the use of smaller buffers than output buffered/output control architectures for the same level of &ldquo;discrete information unit (cell) drop&rdquo; performance, and scales well to larger systems. Input buffering/output control provides all the information necessary to the output (data flow) controller necessary to implement very precise control algorithms. These algorithms can then administer switch fabric admission polices and contract enforcement fairly across all input ports.

Input buffering/output control for a digital traffic switch

A switching fabric for a high-speed, high-performance digital traffic switch guarantees a high degree of resource availability and is resource efficient. Each input port associated with the switching fabric is assigned a time slot in a repetitive time cycle. Data cells received on input ports are staggered so that they are transmitted through the switching fabric in conformance with the assigned time slots. The time slot arrangement allows small data units associated with a particular cell, as they are forwarded through the switching fabric, to be converted into larger parallel data units which respect cell boundaries. The time slot arrangement further allows several of such larger data units to be written into an output queue in a single clock cycle. Thus, cell contention is avoided while making efficient use of queue space. Cells destined for multiple output ports associated with the switching fabric are written into the fullest output queue associated with one of the destination ports, so that the cell can be read and transmitted to all destination output ports using pointers, without the need to replicate the cell.

Switching fabric for a digital traffic switch

The present invention, generally speaking, uses input buffering and output control to provide a high-speed, high-performance digital traffic switch. Dropped discrete information units (cells) are dropped at the input port, and so will not be transmitted across the switch fabric. This reduces the traffic load on the switch fabric during congested periods, and makes the switch fabric easier to design and expand. Input buffering/output control allows for the use of smaller buffers than output buffered/output control architectures for the same level of 'discrete information unit (cell) drop' performance, and scales well to larger systems. Input buffering/output control provides all the information necessary to the output (data flow) controller necessary to implement very precise control algorithms. These algorithms can then administer switch fabric admission polices and contract enforcement fairly across all input ports.

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Christopher Leo Hoogenboom