Enhanced efficiency batcher-banyan packet switch
CA 1268844 C · Owner: Bingham, Bryan Lawson · Inventors: Bingham, Bryan Lawson; Smoot, Lanny Starkes; Day, Chester Morrill Jr.
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A mechanism is disclosed for resolving conflicts between input ports of a Batcher-Banyan Packet switching network that wish to transmit data packets to the same output port during a particular packet switch cycle. The input ports of the Batcher-Banyan network are connected in a serial ring. Bit positions on the ring represent output ports. Each input port having a data packet to transmit to a particular output port may reserve that output port before the start of the next Batcher-Banyan packet switch cycle by writing a "1" in the ring bit position corresponding to the output port to which the data packet is addressed. If the particular output port has already been reserved by another input …
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- Granted May 8, 1990. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 8, 2007.
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