Traffic intermixing mechanism for fast circuit switching
CA 2114569 C · Owner: Georgiou, Christos J. · Inventors: Georgiou, Christos J.; Li, Chung-Sheng
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A method and apparatus for intermixing circuit and packet data on a shared transmission medium. With this invention, the history of gaps between transmitted circuit frames is used to predict future gap sizes. If the size of a predicted gap is larger than the size of a frame of packet data to be transmitted, then the packet data is inserted in the next gap. If a circuit data frame arrives before the completion of transmission of a packet frame the circuit data will be stored in an insertion buffer until completion of transmission of the packet frame.
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- Filed January 31, 1994 and granted March 2, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 31, 2014.
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