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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2001
Applicants:
Paul J Moran, Hemel Hempstead, GB;
Peter J Wilson, Welwyn Garden, GB;
David J Law, Edinburgh, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L012/26 ; H04L012/56 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Traffic through a port of a network switch is monitored and controlled by a token bucket system having a duplex mode in which the bandwidths available for incoming and outgoing packets are controlled by a single token bucket and a half-duplex mode in which the bandwidths for incoming and outgoing packets are controlled by a respective one of two token buckets.