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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2009
Bruce Gilbert Cortez, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Sanja Durinovic-johri, Aberdeen, NJ (US);
Pravin Kumar Johri, Aberdeen, NJ (US);
John Paggi, Bayville, NJ (US);
Simon S. Zelingher, Morganville, NJ (US);
Bruce Gilbert Cortez, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Sanja Durinovic-Johri, Aberdeen, NJ (US);
Pravin Kumar Johri, Aberdeen, NJ (US);
John Paggi, Bayville, NJ (US);
Simon S. Zelingher, Morganville, NJ (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Switches within a telecommunications network exchange so-called available bandwidth messages, each of which advertises how much bandwidth remains unassigned on a respective link. The network is of a type in which circuits are provisioned with various predefined numbers of time slots (equivalent to bandwidth). The sending of an available bandwidth message for a given link is triggered by a change in the number of time slots available on that link if that change results in a change in the number of circuit bandwidths that can be accommodated by that link for a newly provisioned circuit.