US Patent 7660312 Method and apparatus for reshaping cell-based traffic

Patent 7660312 was granted and assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I on February, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

AT&T Intellectual Property I

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

76603120

Patent Inventor Names

Mark A. Elias0

Date of Patent

February 9, 2010

Patent Application Number

111568130

Date Filed

June 20, 2005

Patent Primary Examiner

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Kwang B Yao

Patent abstract

A communication network (100) has a plurality of cell-based routers (104), a plurality of frame-based routers (108), and a bidirectional cell and frame based switch (110) coupled to the cell-based routers, and frame-based routers. Each of the cell-based routers is programmed to reshape (204) traffic bandwidth to avoid packet losses at the frame-based routers, and route (206) cell-based traffic to the bidirectional cell and frame based switch according to the updated bandwidth.