System for selectively compressing data transferred in network in response to produced first output when network utilization exceeds first threshold and data length over limit
US5555377A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 20, 1993 |
| Grant date | Sep 10, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 20, 2013 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/11
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A data communications system including a network and a number of data communication stations attached to the network wherein each of the stations includes a processor, a memory, a bus, and a communications adaptor for operatively connecting the processor and memory to the network, the communications adaptor including a means for monitoring network activity on a real time basis and enabling or disabling data compression when network activity exceeds a predetermined threshold.
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