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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Arthur W. Berger, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 ; H04L 1/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 ; H04L 1/228 ;
Abstract
When a network element receives a request for an increase in bandwidth via a resource management (RM) cell, the network element determines the rate that it can support. If the rate that the network element can support is less than the requested rate, rather than simply rejecting the requested rate, the network element overwrites the rate encoded in the appropriate field in the arriving RM cell with a lower rate than requested. If the network element can support the requested rate, the rate encoded in the RM cell is left unchanged and the RM cell is transmitted to the network along the connection.