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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2003
Phillip Stone Herron, Huntsville, AL (US);
Phillip Stone Herron, Huntsville, AL (US);
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
A mechanism for implementing a single-interrupt-based voice playout buffer transfer operation. The contents of each respective channel of a multi-channel voice playout buffer are encapsulated so as to prepend a four byte ATM header, a HEC byte, and a four byte AAL2 header to a forty-four byte voice channel field to realize a standard fifty-three byte ATM cell. Within the AAL2 header, a channel identification byte (CID) provides selective mapping to timeslots of a TDM frame, to accommodate variations among different vendor equipments. The next to last bit of the last byte of the ATM header is used as an interrupt to the network processor. Only the highest voice channel asserts this next to last bit as an interrupt bit.