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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2002
Masayuki Takase, Kokubunji, JP;
Norihiko Moriwaki, Kokubunji, JP;
Mitsuhiro Wada, Fujisawa, JP;
Hiroaki Kasahara, Fujisawa, JP;
Takahiko Kozaki, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Takase, Kokubunji, JP;
Norihiko Moriwaki, Kokubunji, JP;
Mitsuhiro Wada, Fujisawa, JP;
Hiroaki Kasahara, Fujisawa, JP;
Takahiko Kozaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A traffic shaper comprises a bandwidth controllerhaving a plurality of leaky bucket units-to-n prepared in correspondence with buffer memories-to-n, and an output queue designation unitfor specifying a buffer memory from which a packet is to be read out. Each of the leaky bucket unitshas a level counterfor decrementing the count value at a predetermined rate, and a level increasertofor increasing the count value of the level counter by a value proportional to the product of the length of a transmitted packet and a unitary increment value which is variable depend on the current count value of the level counter.