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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Pradeep Sindhu, Los Altos Hill, CA (US);
Song Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Anurag P. Gupta, Saratoga, CA (US);
Phil Lacroute, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ; H04L 1/256 ; H04L 1/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ; H04L 1/256 ; H04L 1/228 ;
Abstract
A system having multiple arbiters is constructed to reduce the chances of arbiters synchronizing with one another. Each arbiter includes a random process that introduces randomness into an arbitration scheme performed by the arbiter. Because of the randomness, the arbiters will not tend to synchronize with one another, even when receiving an identical stream of input values.