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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2002
Applicant:
Peter J Giacomini, South Plainfield, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Peter J Giacomini, South Plainfield, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bay Microsystems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A novel multiport overhead cell processor for processing overhead cells (e.g., SONET/SDH overhead bytes, etc.) in a telecommunications node is disclosed. Some embodiments of the present invention advantageously employ a single instance of logic to process overhead cells for all of a node's input ports. The illustrative embodiment comprises a single overhead cell processor and a memory for storing instances of state variables associated with each input port.