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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2004
Bimal Shrestha, Tampere, FI;
Arto Suomi, Tampere, FI;
Tarja Hirvonen, Lempaala, FI;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
The invention relates to a system, device, method and computer program product for controlling the flows of a plurality of Data Units (DUs) over logical links, the system comprising at least two first-type Link Control (LC) entities (--), wherein each first-type LC entity transforms a first-type DU into a second-type DU and vice versa, and provides a first interface (--) for the first-type DUs and a second interface for the second type DUs, and a second-type LC entity () with interfaces (--) for the second-type DUs, wherein the second interface of each of the first-type LC entities (--) is directly connected to one respective interface (--) of the second-type LC entity (), and wherein the second-type LC entity () comprises a flow control device () for separately controlling the respective flows of the second-type DUs, which are transferred over its respective interfaces (--).