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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1987
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1985
Rajiv Bhatia, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Joseph G Kneuer, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York, NY (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
AT&T Information Systems Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A multi-stage time division switch interconnects a plurality of processors that individually communicate over one or more channels at various signalling rates. Any processor may initiate a call and request that a connection be set by the switch. The switch assigns one or more time slots to the call and gathers or distributes data over the interconnecting channels through the utilization of polling techniques, thereby creating a virtual circuit through the combination of a time division switch and a polled communication line.