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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:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 ;
Abstract
In an ATM device comprising a switch core,a port shaping unit,is arranged within the switch core,to carry out a port shaping operation. The port shaping unit,controls reading timing of each cell stored in a shared buffer,Therefore, a delay to absorb the CDV is decided by the reading timing and the port shaping operation is achieved within the ATM device without attaching any additional memories to the ATM device.