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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1995
Roberto Perelman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chris Yuan, Fremont, CA (US);
Siemens Business Communication Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Partitioned point-to-point communications networks and configured to include a plurality of overlapping network portions, from 'fully connected' point-to-point communications networks that are being expanded (to include additional sites), reconfigured and/or which are being upgraded (or otherwise modified) to support new and possibly incompatible communications protocols. The partitioning facilitates adding sites to a fully connected network, particularly where a predetermined maximum network size is reached, without having to redesign the network. In addition, modifying communication protocols used in such a network (for example, when upgrading a portion of the network to support a new feature), without having to change protocols for all sites at once is facilitated. Further embodiments comprise (a) processes which allow fully connected point-to-point communications networks to grow without requiring that every site in the network maintain information concerning every other network site, and (b) partitioned point-to-point communications networks which are products of any of these processes.