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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Nagel, Erlangen, DE;
Hans-Georg Keller, Nurnberg, DE;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370244 ;
Abstract
A transmission system comprises a plurality of network nodes which for receiving and transmitting packets which contain connection-related status information about the transmission system. A network node comprises at least one evaluation unit which stores status information extracted from a packet in a table. Furthermore, irrespective of the order of the received packets, the evaluation unit determines current, connection-related statuses in a given order for each connection, based upon the statuses also stored in the table and determined thus far, as well as on the received connection-related status information signals.