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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:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard P. LaRowe, Jr., Franklin, MA (US);
Thomas Brand, Reading, MA (US);
David Wacker, Bedford, MA (US);
Assignee:
GTE Service Corporation, Irving, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/00 ;
Abstract
A network includes a hub device connected to a plurality of peripheral devices. The hub device includes a send token register, a receive token register, and a communication protocol engine. The send token register contains tokens for allocation of output data bandwidth. The receive token register contains tokens for allocation of input data bandwidth. The communication protocol engine alternately transmits the tokens from the send and receive token registers to ensure a split of the output and input data bandwidth on the network.