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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:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
May. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Heather Achilles, Hudson, NH (US);
Terry Pearson, Hollis, NH (US);
Paul Gallo, Newton, MA (US);
Tom Colley, Groton, MA (US);
Dan Sullivan, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Bill Miller, Groton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ; H04T 3/16 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ; H04T 3/16 ;
Abstract
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for prioritization of control plane traffic in a router. A destination slot is allocated in a sliding window buffer via a control channel. A data packet is received via a data channel. An acknowledgement that the data packet was received is sent via the control channel. The destination slot is released via the control channel.