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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. 12, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard J Proctor, Wimborne, GB;
Thomas S Maddern, Wimborne, GB;
Mark T Jeffrey, Wareham, GB;
Alexander Philip, Wimborne, GB;
Assignee:
GPT Limited, , GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 60 ; 370 54 ; 370 61 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns an Asynchronous Transfer Mode Switch having a plurality of input stages (IS1 . . . 1SN) each for receiving a digital data transmission stream (DS1 . . . 256) consisting of a series of cells and wherein each input stage of the switch includes a circuit (52) for determining the destination of the cells of that data stream, and a circuit (63) for disassembling each cell into cell elements and for allocating to each cell element routing data to enable it to be routed across the central stages.