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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Tellabs Operations, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Inventor:
Eric Chan, Naperville, IL (US);
Assignee:
CORIANT OPERATIONS, INC., Naperville, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04J 3/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/40 (2013.01); H04J 3/085 (2013.01); H04J 2203/0085 (2013.01); H04J 2203/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
A procedure, apparatus, system, and medium for transferring traffic across a packet network. In the procedure, a network element bundles a plurality of common (Synchronous Transport Signal) STS-Nc services included in a virtual concatenation group. The network element then transfers the traffic in accordance with the bundled plurality of STS-Nc services. In one example embodiment herein, the plurality of STS-Nc services are STS-services, and each bundle of STS-services is aligned to a timeslot boundary of an STS-c service.