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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:
Nov. 21, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Erann Gat, Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 60 ; 370 8514 ; 370 943 ; 370108 ;
Abstract
A digital communications network for digital data comprising packets of a predetermined size. A transmitter and a receiver are connected to a set of buffers which are connected to a microprocessor which controls the data flow into and out of the buffers. The size of the buffers and hence the size of the data packets is relatively large. This allows the processor to perform per-packet operations in software which would otherwise be done in hardware, including routing decisions and error detection and correction. The network allows various topologies, is speed scalable, and simplifies resource allocation.