Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals

LW Yonge III, BE Markwalter, IISJ Kostoff… - US Patent …, 2008 - Google Patents
An access contention scheme having both multi-level pri orities and a contention-free
access indicator for use by a station in a network of Stations. When a contention control …

Systems and methods for broadband network optimization

M Phillipi, B Ross, T Anderson - US Patent App. 11/949,864, 2008 - Google Patents
Disclosed are systems and methods for maximizing trans mission throughput or capacity in a
heterogeneous commu nications network. The systems and methods may include any one …

Mechanism for using a quasi-addressed response to bind to a message requesting the response

IISJ Kostoff, JP Patella - US Patent 7,469,297, 2008 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A Media Access Control (MAC) protocol scheme for binding a response to
a frame that requested the response. The response specifies a portion of the frame check …

Method and system for implementing an improved universal packet switching capability in a data switch

FL Pierson - US Patent 7,349,393, 2008 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A system and method for moving Voice telephone calls through a data
network. More particularly, the system and method are directed to the efficient operation of …

Method and apparatus for providing quality of service across a switched backplane between egress queue managers

R Gupta, J Chueh, R Tangirala, M Kasinathan… - US Patent …, 2008 - Google Patents
(54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 6,772,222 B 1 8/2004 Gallo et al. PROVIDING
QUALITY OF SERVICE ACROSS 6,907,001 B1* 6/2005 Nakayama et al........... 370,230 …

Backpressure history mechanism in flow control

J Sterne, TE Davis - US Patent 7,342,881, 2008 - Google Patents
GOSC I5/00(2006.015 scheme are not instantaneous in that latency always exists H04
L/I6(2006.015 between action and reaction, resulting in a flow control H04. 3/14(2006.015 …