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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:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tomoaki Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/226 ; H04L 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/226 ; H04L 1/00 ;
Abstract
A cell buffer use rate monitoring method allowing a memory required for detecting the currently used amount of a cell buffer to be reduced. A monitoring time and a plurality of cell buffer thresholds are previously set in a setting data memory. A cell buffer use rate is calculated based on the number of cells received within the monitoring time and the number of times a currently used cell buffer amount has exceeded each of the cell buffer thresholds.