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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. 08, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1997
Robert Simpson, Bristol, GB;
Neil Richards, Somerset, GB;
Peter Thompson, Newport, GB;
Pascal Moniot, Bernin, FR;
Marcello Coppola, Trapani, IT;
Pierre Dumas, Sevres, FR;
Thierry Grenot, Clamart, FR;
David Mouen Makoua, Nanterre, FR;
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Limited, Almondsbury Bristol, GB;
Abstract
An ATM routing switch has a plurality of output ports for handling digital signal cells on a first type requiring integrity of cell transmission and a second type accepting some loss of cells in transmission, the output ports having control circuitry to provide a plurality of queues of cells at each output port, each queue comprising only cells of a single type while each port outputs a mixture of cells of both types on a common output path flow control indicators on incoming cells being used to inhibit output of cells along any path to a destination for which a flow control indicator has indicated congestion.
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