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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:
May. 23, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas Worster, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 17 ; 370 60 ; 370 941 ;
Abstract
A modified leaky-bucket method for a message transmission system wherein a message cell stream is asynchronously transmitted, this message cell stream carrying message cells for a plurality of virtual connections with a broad range of possible message cell rates, the message cell rate for every virtual connection is being monitored and limited according to a leaky-bucket method, the shortest allowable, timing between two message cells belonging to the same virtual connection being represented by the quotient of two numbers.