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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:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
H Earl Ferguson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeff Prince, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Randy Ryals, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gururaj Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Yip, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Bay Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370395 ; 370429 ; 370474 ;
Abstract
In a segmentation and reassembly module in a local area network switch module, a method and apparatus for storing fixed length data cells received from an ATM network in a plurality of memory buffers during the reassembly of the data cells in to a variable length data packet to be transmitted on an attached local area network.