Contention-free access intervals on a CSMA network

LW Yonge III, S Katar, IISJ Kostoff… - US Patent …, 2009 - Google Patents
A method of operating in a network in which stations communicate over a shared medium is
described. The method provides regularly repeated contention free intervals, CSMA …

Reserving time periods for communication on power line networks

LW Yonge III, S Katar - US Patent 7,636,370, 2009 - Google Patents
359: A 38. s et al 1 second network protocol capable of coexisting with the first 4,630.261. A
12, 1986 t Ca protocol, so that stations may communicate using either the 4. 677. 612 A 6 …

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

R Gupta, J Chueh, R Tangirala, M Kasinathan… - US Patent …, 2009 - Google Patents
A method and system is provided to enable quality of service across a backplane switch. An
egress queue manager on one blade communicates with an ingress queue manager on the …

Communication control method and network system

S Masunaga, K Manaka, Y Niwa - US Patent 7,630,303, 2009 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are a communication control method and a network system. When a total
band of a priority flow and a best-effort flow in any one of switches SW1 and SW2 and hosts …