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Message ring in a switching network

US7751419B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Inventors

Shaun Clem · Thousand Oaks, US
Jimmy Pu · Cerritos, US
Darrin Patek · Thousand Oaks, US
Todd Khacherian · Moorpark, US
Chris Reed · Reno, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 25, 2007
Grant date	Jul 6, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 18, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L2012/6437
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A switching network for efficiently receiving and transmitting data packets having both frames and messages includes a crossbar switch with a plurality of surrounding ports for exclusively switching frames which normally consist of large data streams of 40 to 60 bytes. Then the ports are connected together in a message ring and small data entity messages, for example 4, 8, or 12 bytes, are switched from an input port to an output port around the ring avoiding congestion of the crossbar switch.

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