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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:
Jan. 09, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Ben-Nun, Jerusalem, IL;
Kadangode K Ramakrishnan, Maynard, MA (US);
Assignee:
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 601 ; 370 942 ;
Abstract
An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network device having a receiver portion, the receiver portion capable of receiving ATM cells on virtual circuits (VCs) from an upstream ATM switch, a local memory used to store the ATM cells, managing local memory using queues, assembling ATM cells into packets, transmitting the packets to a host memory, resynchronizing ATM credits, and a transmitter portion, the transmitter portion indicating transmitting of packets to host memory to the upstream ATM switch.