Multimedia network interface for asynchronous transfer mode communication system
US5717691A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 30, 1995 |
| Grant date | Feb 10, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 30, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2012/5652
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A multimedia communications and computer platform that can serve as a network interface card combined with an internal distribution network for a full range of user terminal devices. It includes an interconnection network module that serves to route all incoming and outgoing information by way of high speed buses with value added features for communication protocol acceleration. In particular, attached to the different ports of the network are an ATM module, a communications processor, a media processor and a variety of terminal devices. By migrating processing intensive functions of network protocol termination, media stream distribution and media stream adaptation into the network interface card, there are avoided the bottlenecks of the traditional CPU centric approach to ATM systems.
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