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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1993
Filed:
May. 07, 1991
Karen L Woest, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
James K Stark, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
David E Rasmussen, Wales, WI (US);
Johnson Service Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A network control system of one node of a communication network includes a data link stage and a session stage which provide a priority protocol. The network control system includes a storage and the data link stage stores received messages in the storage. When the number of stored messages reaches a predetermined limit, the data link stage limits the receipt of messages to priority messages. The session stage is arranged such that if it and a session stage of another node simultaneously initiate a session service, a connection is established, the session stage having a higher priority completes its session first, and the connection is maintained to permit the lower priority session stage to complete its session.