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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 07, 1999
Terry L. Hengl, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Richard A. Bienz, Chandler, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of avoiding the discarding of data in congested data networks includes receiving a data packet sent from a first station ( ) to a first transceiver located in the data network. The data packet is designated to be forwarded to a second station ( ) and the second station or a link, from a second transceiver to the second station, is temporarily busy. In this method the data packet is delayed by forwarding it from the first transceiver to a third transceiver ( ) which is not busy and is forwarded back to the second station at a later time. Since it takes time to forward the data package through one or more other transceivers, the network operates to delay or store the data packet until the second station is no longer too busy.