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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. 16, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Zygmunt Haas, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359139 ; 359140 ; 370108 ;
Abstract
A packet synchronization technique, in a synchronous optical packet switch, which delays received packets to ensure that there is only one packet per local time slot. The packets are of a time duration .tau. which is equal to or less than one-half the duration of the local time slot of the optical switch. Each packet received at an optical switch is delayed an interval of n.tau. where n=0, 1 or 2.