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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lionel Bustini, Nice, FR;
Andre Cretegny, Le Pecq, FR;
Gerard Marmigere, Drap, FR;
Guy Platel, Villeneuve Loubet, FR;
Pierre Secondo, Saint Jeannet, FR;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 601 ; 370 61 ;
Abstract
In a packet switching network, voice packets are made to include an EC field whose contents indicates whether the corresponding packet is eligible for clipping if required in a node queue within the network. Should clipping of a non eligible packet be required, then another bit field would be set in the following packet on same link to limit any possible clipping of successive packets on same link.