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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:
Feb. 23, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Philip K Edholm, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395312 ; 395311 ; 370386 ;
Abstract
A configurable connection fabric between a switching fabric and a backplane allows any of the ports of the backplane to be connected to any of the ports of the switching fabric. The connection fabric receives bandwidth load requirements from modules connected to the backplane and uses these load requirements to determine the number of ports required to make a particular connection.