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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2019
Applicant:
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Michael Rentschler, Baden-Wuerttemberg, DE;
Venkatraman Iyer, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04L 12/403 (2006.01); H04L 47/22 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/40156 (2013.01); H04L 12/403 (2013.01); H04L 12/40032 (2013.01); H04L 47/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed embodiments relate, generally, to traffic shaping at a network segment having a shared bus. Some embodiments relate to performing aspects of the traffic shaping at a physical layer device. In some cases, transmit timeslot signaling may be tuned at a physical layer device to create transmit timeslots that are aligned with the traffic shaping profile.