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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. 10, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ronald M. Keenan, Oxford, CT (US);
Thomas F. Barraza, Monroe, CT (US);
Edward R. Caceres, Milford, CT (US);
Joseph A. Deptula, Watertown, CT (US);
Patrick A. Evans, Burlington, CT (US);
Joseph Setaro, Danbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
Merlot Communications, Inc., Bethel, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/256 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/256 ;
Abstract
A communications switching module (CSM) serving as common switching equipment for work stations in a star-topology Ethernet local area network. Both voice and data are incorporated in master Ethernet packets which are transmitted at a constant rate. The CSM switches the voice signals synchronously over a time domain multiplexed highway and separately switches the data signals asynchronously over a high speed packet bus.