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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2004
Applicants:
Paul Brian Ripy, Laurens, SC (US);
Shuo Huang, Novato, CA (US);
Amar Mohammed Othman, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Christophe Pierre Leroy, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Brian Ripy, Laurens, SC (US);
Shuo Huang, Novato, CA (US);
Amar Mohammed Othman, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Christophe Pierre Leroy, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tellabs Petaluma, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The bus circuit of a master electronics card in a backplane-based communications system adaptively grants the upstream bus to the slave electronics cards by the early termination of a scheduled number of grants to a slave electronics card when the bus circuit on the master electronics card detects idle cells.