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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
A method for controlling congestion in a packet switching network uses a packet dropping algorithm to determine when to drop a marked packet wherever the network is congested at any point along the path being traversed by the marked packet.