Contention control circuit
US5953341A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 24, 1997 |
| Grant date | Sep 14, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 24, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2012/5679
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A contention control circuit which temporarily stores cells arriving from a respective plurality of input lines to output cells to a single output line without collisions. The contention control circuit compares, at each input line in turn, the priority of the cell that has arrived from that input line, with the priority of the cell selected from among the cells that have arrived from preceding input lines as the cell having the highest priority, and again selects the cell with the higher priority.
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