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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2002
Applicants:
Merwin Herscher Alferness, Rochester, MN (US);
Glen Howard Handlogten, Rochester, MN (US);
James Francis Mikos, Rochester, MN (US);
David Alan Norgaard, Rochester, MN (US);
Inventors:
Merwin Herscher Alferness, Rochester, MN (US);
Glen Howard Handlogten, Rochester, MN (US);
James Francis Mikos, Rochester, MN (US);
David Alan Norgaard, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a scheduler circuit for a network processor, bandwidth assigned to a virtual path is allocated among virtual channels associated with the virtual path. The allocation of bandwidth among the virtual channels is varied dynamically as virtual channels become active or inactive.