Local memory buffers management for an ATM adapter implementing credit based flow control
US5633867A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 1, 1994 |
| Grant date | May 27, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 1, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2012/5636
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network device having a receiver portion capable of receiving ATM cells on one of a number of virtual circuits (VCs) from an upstream ATM switch, a local memory used to store the ATM cells, a management system to manage the local memory using a number of queues, a system for assembling ATM cells into packets, a system for transmitting the packets to a host memory, and a transmitter portion having a system for indicating the transmitting of packets to the host memory to the upstream ATM switch.
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