Method for selecting virtual channels based on address priority in an asynchronous transfer mode device
US6163541A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 15, 1998 |
| Grant date | Dec 19, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 15, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2012/5665
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An address look-up data-base is used to store medial access control addresses for resolution into channel numbers in a system for transmitting data in an asynchronous transfer mode. Static random access memory is used to contain pointer tables, there being a pointer table for each possible priority level in the data packet. Thus a search for the media access control address of a data packet in the content addressable memory yields, among other data, a priority value which when combined with other data points to a location in one of the pointer tables, which accesses the appropriate channel number.
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