Resynchronization method and apparatus for local memory buffers management for an ATM adapter implementing credit based flow control
US5483526A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 20, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jan 9, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 20, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2012/5681
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network device having a receiver portion, the receiver portion capable of receiving ATM cells on virtual circuits (VCs) from an upstream ATM switch, a local memory used to store the ATM cells, managing local memory using queues, assembling ATM cells into packets, transmitting the packets to a host memory, resynchronizing ATM credits, and a transmitter portion, the transmitter portion indicating transmitting of packets to host memory to the upstream ATM switch.
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