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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Adrian E Eckberg, Jr, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Daniel T Luan, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
David M Lucantoni, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Tibor J Schonfeld, Livingston, NJ (US);
Assignee:
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 60 ; 370 94 ;
Abstract
In a packet switching network, packet monitoring and marking algorithms are used for determining which data packets, received from a customer by an access node, are being transmitted at an excessive transmission rate and accordingly are marked. Additionally every packet from a special customer can be marked. Along in the network, marked packets are dropped where the network is congested along the path being traversed by the data packets.