Method and apparatus for flow control in a packet switch

Details Method and apparatus for flow control in a packet switch Method and apparatus for flow control in a packet switch

2006-05-02

2006-05-02

Patel, Ajit (Department: 2664)

Multiplex communications

Data flow congestion prevention or control

Control of data admission to the network

C370S335000, C370S468000, C710S036000, C710S060000

Reexamination Certificate

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07039011

ABSTRACT:
A network (10) includes a plurality of packet switches (12) for routing data packets. The packet switches (12) include input ports (16) for receiving packets and output ports (20) for sending packets. A matrix (18) passes packets from an input port (16) to a desired output port (20). Input ports (16) include one or more input queues (22) and output ports (16) include an output queue (24). Each input queue (22) is associated with an output queue (24). Control messages for passed between the input ports (16) and output ports (20) for controlling the acceleration of the rate of data transfer between associated input queues (22) and output queues (24).

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