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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1998
Wen-Tsung Tang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
3COM Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for rate-based flow control protocol on a ring topology network utilizing ethernet packet format and ethernet equipment. The method operates on a communication network communicatively coupling a plurality of network nodes each representing a local area network (LAN). The method for controlling a transmission of a data packets on the ring-topology communication network uses the following steps. A flow path is determined for data packets in the communication network. In another step, limits are calculated for the flow paths of the data packets with respect to each of the network nodes such that the data packets have controlled access to transmit on the communication network. In a final step, the transmission of the data packets on the flow paths is controlled according to the limits and using a packet format and equipment that is directly compatible with the local area network.