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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:
Jun. 21, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michel Henrion, Brussels, BE;
Assignee:
Alcatel N.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 941 ; 370 79 ;
Abstract
Data is sent over a transmission link in consecutive variable length blocks in asynchronous transfer mode. Each block is either a data block if it contains data or an empty block if it does not. Each data block includes a header sub-block of a first type containing service data and at least one data sub-block of a second type containing data. Each empty block includes an empty sub-block of a third type. The sub-blocks of one of the three sub-block types have a length different from the respective lengths of the sub-blocks of the other two types.