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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2001
Dirk Kurt Brandis, Novato, CA (US);
Yantao Jia, Stow, MA (US);
Bob Reissfelder, Westwood, MA (US);
Lei Jin, Irvine, CA (US);
Shahzad Ali, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Stephen John West, Petaluma, CA (US);
Hui Zhang, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Shuangxia Sarah Zhu, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Turin Networks, Petaluma, CA (US);
Abstract
An ingress is coupled with the switch fabric to send flows of data across the switch fabric. Each of the flows of data is associated with a flow identification information and a priority level. An egress is coupled with the switch fabric to receive the flows of data from the ingress. The egress is configured to send one or more flow control messages to the ingress to control a pace that the ingress sends the flows of data to the egress. Each of the flow control messages includes one or more of a flow identification information, an egress space availability information and a new priority level for a flow.