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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:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1997
Cedell Adam Alexander, Jr., Durham, NC (US);
Jim P. Ervin, Raleigh, NC (US);
Edward Joel Rovner, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Matthew Blaze Squire, Raleigh, NC (US);
Mark Alan Tippens, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of alleviating network congestion in an emulated Local Area Network (ELAN) within an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network is implemented. The method mitigates network congestion by distributing the connection times of Local Area Network (LAN) Emulation Client (LEC) to an ELAN over random periods of time. When a LAN Emulation Server (LES) or Broadcast and Unknown Server (BUS) attempts to build point-to-multipoint connections to the LEC, it issues control messages to network switches. If the messages are dropped or rejected the LES or BUS recognizes the network is in a congested state and randomly retries to attempt connection.
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