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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2000
Brent Ashley Williams, Chandler, AZ (US);
John Abel, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Keith Matthew Nolan, Chandler, AZ (US);
Keith Palermo, Higley, AZ (US);
Scott Demarest, Gilbert, AZ (US);
General Dynamics Decision Systems, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Abstract
A flow of data ( ) is regulated in a communication system ( ). A data rate is established in each of a data source ( ) and a data sink ( ). The data ( ) is transmitted by the data source ( ) and written into a buffer ( ) at the source data rate, then read from the buffer ( ) and received by the data sink ( ) at the sink data rate. The level ( ) of data ( ) in the buffer ( ) is monitored, and a rate-control signal ( ) is dispatched to either the data source ( ) or sink ( ) when it is determined the buffer data level ( ) is decreasing or increasing while at a lower or upper data-level threshold ( ), respectively. One of the data rates is adjusted in response to a rate-control signal ( ).