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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alexander Joffe, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
MMC Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370412 ; 370397 ; 370468 ;
Abstract
In an ATM switch, queue thresholds vary dynamically depending on switch congestion. All the queues are organized in one or more classes. The thresholds for each class depend inversely on the number of cells in all the queues of the class.