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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:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1998
Jacqueline M. Wetzel, Richardson, TX (US);
William C. Timm, McKinney, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and system for controlling data latency in a communication network use a pre-selected portion of the data to identify one of at least two latency paths. The data is transported to a network device ( ) through physical channel ( ). The network device ( ) includes at least two latency paths ( ), each operable to transport the data through to other parts of the device ( ) at an associated rate. In a first aspect of the present invention, data sorter ( ) extracts a latency path identifier from the incoming data then provides the incoming data to one of the at least two latency paths ( ) accordingly. In another aspect of the present invention, the data sorter ( ) extracts a indicator from the incoming data which characterizes the incoming data, decodes the indicator to determine which of the at least two latency paths ( ) to selects, then provides the incoming data to the selected one of the at least two latency paths ( ). An interleaving device ( ) may be included in a selected one of the data paths ( ). The at least two latency paths ( ) transport the data to multiplexer ( ) where the data is recombined for further transport to other portions of the device ( ) through path ( ).
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