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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:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brain D. Holden, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brian D. Alleyne, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Darren S. Braun, Fremont, CA (US);
Kevin Reno, Mougins, FR;
Chee Hu, Fremont, CA (US);
Raghavan Menon, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Steve Sprouse, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
PMC-Sierra, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/254 ; H04L 1/256 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/254 ; H04L 1/256 ;
Abstract
Methods and devices useful in high-speed scalable switching systems include a memoryless switch fabric, per virtual channel queuing, digital phase aligners, randomized and complement connection modes, a mid-point negative acknowledge and output negative acknowledge scheme among other elements. A particular implementation of a routing table and switch element is described in part to illustrate the various techniques and devices of the invention.