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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 1997
Filed:
May. 26, 1995
Kohei Abe, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Koichi Tanaka, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A communication control system for providing and registering a plurality of virtual circuits and sequentially transferring cells via the virtual circuits in response to request for transferring cells in an synchronous transfer mode is described. The communications control system comprises a device for determining whether or not it is permitted to transfer a cell via each virtual circuit having been registered in order to control the rate of transferring cells via the virtual circuit, and a device for erasing the registration of each virtual circuit if no cell is transferred via the virtual circuit for a predetermined time period after latest transmission on the basis of information for controlling the rate of transferring cells via the virtual circuit. In this configuration, erroneous operation is prevented which originates from overflow occurring in a counter for counting the present time.