Multiplex communications – Pathfinding or routing – Combined circuit switching and packet switching
Reissue Patent
2005-10-11
2005-10-11
Cangialosi, Salvatore (Department: 2661)
Multiplex communications
Pathfinding or routing
Combined circuit switching and packet switching
C370S395500
Reissue Patent
active
RE038820
ABSTRACT:
An integrated circuit has an isochronous network port for receiving isochronous information from an isochronous network. To allow the integrated circuit to receive information packaged in accordance with two different packaging protocols (for example, HDLC and ATM), the integrated circuit includes a first framer/deframer circuit for deframing information packaged in accordance with a first packaging protocol (for example, HDLC) and a second framer/deframer circuit for deframing information packaged in accordance with a second packaging protocol (for example, ATM). A circuit switch is provided to cause incoming data to be deframed by the appropriate framer/deframer circuit depending on which slot of the network frame contained the information. Once deframed, a buffer manager controls storing of the information in a circular ring buffer in an external memory. A device residing on a host bus coupled to the integrated circuit may then read the information from the circular ring buffer via a parallel bus port of the integrated circuit. Information may also pass in the opposite direction from the parallel bus port, through a buffer memory port to the buffer memory, and from the buffer memory through the buffer memory port, through an appropriate framer/deframer circuit, through the isochronous network port, and onto the network.
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Dejager Gregory L.
Swenson Erik R.
Cangialosi Salvatore
Loudermilk & Associates
Negotiated Data Solutions LLC
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