Patent 7430180 was granted and assigned to Airbus on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A packet switching network including subscriber stations connected to each other through at least one switch, which has a behavior defined as deterministic in that any packet sent on the network from a source subscriber station joins the destination subscriber station(s) within a limited time. In the packet switching network each output port from each switch on the network satisfies the relationship: