Multiplex communications – Network configuration determination – In a bus system
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-16
2009-10-20
Hsu, Alpus H (Department: 2419)
Multiplex communications
Network configuration determination
In a bus system
C370S403000, C370S424000, C398S050000, C398S056000, C398S059000, C709S251000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07606180
ABSTRACT:
A ring communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of nodes in which a single one of the nodes is configured for full channel conversion and the remaining nodes, other than the single node, are configured for no channel conversion. Links with no more than W channels couple the nodes. The ring communication network may include N nodes and links connecting the nodes for carrying data in W channels such that N≧2 log2W−1, where W is a power of 2. Each of the N nodes includes switches connected such that each channel of a first one of the links adjacent to any one of the N nodes can be switched to no more than W−1 channels of another one of the links adjacent to any one node.
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Ramaswami Rajiv
Sasaki Galen
Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds P.C.
Hsu Alpus H
Tellabs Operations Inc.
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