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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1998
Per Lindgren, Stockholm, SE;
Christer Bohm, Stockholm, SE;
Net Insight AB, Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A technique is provided for allocating access to time slots used for transferring data between nodes in a time multiplexed network, whose bandwidth is divided into cycles. The cycles are in turn divided into control slots for control signaling and data slots for transferring data. The slots allocated to a primary home node may be temporarily allocated to a temporary home node, in which case the temporary home node, instead of the primary home node, then temporarily has the write access to the slots. The slots may subsequently be reallocated to the primary home node. In particular, the degree of temporary allocation of slots to a first node is evaluated. Then, the number of slots having the first node as a primary home node may be increased based upon the evaluation. This decreases the need for temporary allocation of slots within the network.