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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Naoaki Yamanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Eiji Oki, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoaki Kawamura, Iruma, JP;
Tsuneo Matsumura, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370416 ; 370412 ; 370389 ;
Abstract
A contention control circuit which temporarily stores cells arriving from a respective plurality of input lines to output cells to a single output line without collisions. The contention control circuit compares, at each input line in turn, the priority of the cell that has arrived from that input line, with the priority of the cell selected from among the cells that have arrived from preceding input lines as the cell having the highest priority, and again selects the cell with the higher priority.