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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:
Oct. 26, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 15, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alexander Birman, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Harry R Gail, Jr, Ossining, NY (US);
Sidney L Hantler, Peekskill, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 60 ; 370 61 ; 370 941 ;
Abstract
This invention describes a method and apparatus for serving the buffers of a buffer system to avoid overflow of buffers. More specifically, this invention describes which buffers of the system should be first selected for servicing so as to avoid overflow. In addition, with this invention, the buffer size of each buffer in the system is independent of the number of links of the system.