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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1996
Kenneth M Buckland, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Thomas R Eames, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Lac X Trinh, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Steven D Warwick, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Next Level Communications, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A cell grant mechanism is presented which allows a central device to control the transmission of cells from one or more remote devices connected to the central device over a physical medium. Grants are issued from a grant table in the central device to allow remote devices to transmit cells to the central device. The spacing of the grants are optimized to minimize cell delay variation. When there are unused cell opportunities, central device can issue grants to devices to utilize the unused cell opportunities on an available bit rate basis.