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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
May. 22, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Iwamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 1/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 1/104 ;
Abstract
An ATM cell buffer system for buffering ATM cells in various network nodes forming an ATM network, comprising a congestion control unit for controlling congestion of the ATM cells, and further comprising a control counter for counting the number of ATM cells supplied from the ATM cell buffer, in every predetermined period, for every VC queue, within the congestion control unit , the congestion control unit deciding the count value of the counter as the minimum output bandwidth for deciding the number of ATM cells to be stored in the next predetermined period, for every connection.