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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. 21, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370412 ; 370413 ; 370415 ; 370417 ;
Abstract
A method and system for optimizing data link occupation in a multipriority data traffic environment by using data multiplexing techniques over fixed or variable length data packets being asynchronously transmitted. The packets are split into segments including both a segment number and a packet number. The segments are dispatched, on a priority basis, over available links or virtual channels based on a global link availability control word indications, which control word is dynamically adjusted according to specific predefined conditions.