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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:
Apr. 05, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kuo-Chu Lee, Franklin, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Communications Research, Inc., Livingston, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395725 ; 395325 ; 3642426 ; 3642428 ; 3642429 ; 364D / ; 36493701 ; 36494092 ; 3649408 ; 364D / ; 3408255 ; 370 54 ; 370 63 ;
Abstract
An inventive arbiter controls access to a resource in a high speed computer or telecommunications network. The arbiter is capable of performing round-robin scheduling for N requests with P possible priority levels with a sublinear time complexity. The high arbitration speed is achieved through use of a tree structure with a token distribution system for implementing the round-robin scheduling policy.