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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1999
Mark William Branstad, Rochester, MN (US);
Jonathan William Byrn, Kasson, MN (US);
Gary Scott Delp, Rochester, MN (US);
Philip Lynn Leichty, Rochester, MN (US);
Todd Edwin Leonard, Williston, VT (US);
Gary Paul McClannahan, Rochester, MN (US);
John Emery Nordman, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin Gerard Plotz, Byron, MN (US);
John Handley Shaffer, Rochester, MN (US);
Albert Alfonse Slane, Oronoco, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing communications in a communications network. The apparatus for implementing communications includes a system interface to the communications network. A scheduler schedules enqueued cells and enqueued frames to be transmitted. A segmenter segments frames and cells in into cells or frames applied to a media adaptation block for transmission in a selected one of multiple modes.