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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:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1997
Michael J. Von Ahnen, Plano, TX (US);
Sreejith Sreedharan, Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed, for use in a processing network containing a first node operable to transmit and receive frame relay data and a second node operable to transmit and receive asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) data, a network interface for converting the frame relay data to ATM data comprising: 1) a frame relay interface circuit operable to receive the frame relay data from the first node; 2) an ATM interface circuit operable to transmit the ATM data to the second node; 3) a data bus for coupling the frame relay interface circuit and the ATM interface circuit, the data bus operable to transfer frame payload data from the frame relay interface circuit to the ATM interface circuit; 4) a data traffic controller operable to receive frame header data from the frame relay interface circuit and control transfers of the frame payload data from the frame relay interface circuit to the ATM interface circuit; and 5) a bridge for coupling the data traffic controller to the data bus, the bridge isolating the data traffic controller from the transfers of the frame payload data.
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