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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:
Mar. 07, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Irwin J Abramovitz, Baltimore City, MD (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359127 ; 359117 ; 359128 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for processing data packets within a grid-based mesh network having a plurality of particular nodes at the intersections of rows and columns of data transmission links which link the nodes together, which apparatus can determine if a particular incoming data packet has previously been re-transmitted through a particular node or has a wavelength of a data packet currently being processed through the node and, a plurality of tunable filters for blocking a data packet from being re-transmitted if the packet has such a wavelength or was previously re-transmitted through the nodes.