Assistant Examiner Saba Tsejaye (*) Notice: This patent issued on a continued pros-(74)
Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Mendelsohn and ecution application filed under 37 CFR …

(57) ABSTRACT A method and system for a network node for attachment to Switch fabrics is
described. The system includes an access unit to provide access to communications from an …

Providing different levels of quality of service for different data flows being transported over a
data link requires a very fast way to schedule individual packets for forwarding on the data …

Some embodiments of the present invention include data network comprising a host system
having a host-fabric adapter; at least one remote system; a switch fabric which interconnects …

BACKGROUND In communication networks, services with a wide range of traffic
characteristics and quality of service requirements may share the bandwidth of a physical or …

The present invention provides a method, apparatus and article of manufacture for
translating the quality of Service (QOS) of a data packet. An incoming type of service (TOS) …

(57) ABSTRACT A communications system operator provides to each user of a multi-user
communications system a committed information rate (CIR). When a user requests …

BACKGROUND Use of network data communications for commercial and non-commercial
applications continues to grow at an extremely rapid pace. This growth in the use of data …

Hybrid fiber/coax networks employ the existing cable plant used for cable TV and transmit
data signals in a frequency bandwidth above that which is used for cable TV. The present …

An adaptive weighted round robin scheduling apparatus and method schedules variable-
length frame transmissions from a plurality of output queue having different transmission …