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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:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1998
Ronald M. Salett, Framingham, MA (US);
David B. Fite, Jr., Northborough, MA (US);
Nicholas Ilyadis, Pepperell, MA (US);
Nortel Networks Limited, Montreal, CA;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for adjusting an interpacket gap. In one embodiment, a plurality of network devices are tightly coupled together in series. Data is transmitted and received by the network devices in packets with interpacket gaps interposed between each packet. Buffers are included in each network device to serve as elasticity buffers for the data being transmitted between the network devices. The first upstream network device transmits interpacket gaps having an increased size. Downstream network devices may shrink increased size interpacket gaps to reduced size interpacket gaps if the internal buffers are filled to or above a high water mark. However, downstream network devices are not allowed to shrink the size of reduced size interpacket gaps that are received, even if their internal buffers are filled to or above the high water mark.
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