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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bidyut Parruck, San Jose, CA (US);
Chetan V Sanghvi, Fremont, CA (US);
Vinay Kumar Bhasin, Raipur, IN;
Makarand Dharmapurikar, Nanded, IN;
Uday Govind Joshi, Bombay, IN;
Assignee:
CoreEl MicroSystems, Fremont, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370395 ; 370412 ; 370428 ;
Abstract
Improved methods and apparatus to facilitate switching Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cells through an ATM switching circuit are disclosed. The improved methods and apparatus facilitate the implementation of per virtual connection buffering, per virtual connection arbitration of ATM cells, and/or per virtual connection back-pressuring to improve switching efficiency and/or reduce the complexity and/or costs of the ATM switching circuit.