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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:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nanying Yin, Newton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, Montreal, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/226 ; H04L 1/256 ; G06F 1/314 ; G06F 1/316 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/226 ; H04L 1/256 ; G06F 1/314 ; G06F 1/316 ;
Abstract
A system for allocating shared memory resources among a plurality of queues and discarding incoming data as necessary. The shared memory resources are monitored to determine a number of available memory buffers in the shared memory. A threshold value is generated for each queue indicating a maximum amount of data to be stored in the associated queue. Threshold values are updated in response to changes in the number of available memory buffers.