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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1986
Gerald Lebizay, Vence, FR;
Yeong-Chang Lien, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Kioshi Maruyama, Campbell, CA (US);
Stanley E Schuster, Granite Springs, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus to provide high speed voice/data switching with efficient utilization of available bandwidth and minimal switching delay. More specifically, this invention uses shift registers at each crosspoint of a switching matrix. In each slot position of the register, there is a bit representing the status of an associated crosspoint during a particular time slot. Each slot position of the register represents a different time slot. The status of the crosspoint changes in accordance with the bit that is in a designated slot position during each time slot. During each time slot, at most one bit of data/voice is then transmitted through any given closed crosspoint.