Network switcher

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1997-07-02

2000-08-01

Pham, Chi H.

Multiplex communications

Channel assignment techniques

Details of circuit or interface for connecting user to the...

370465, 370401, H04L 1256, H04L 1266, H04J 316

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060977299

ABSTRACT:
A network switcher for data transfer between a network communication unit and a plurality of nodes is provided. In this network switcher, the interface ports or MAC (media access control) addresses are divided into groups, and the data transfer is permitted only between those interface ports or MAC addresses within the same group. This feature can avoid a node-information signal whose destination address is not yet acknowledged to be transferred to all of the other interface ports beside the destination one. Conventionally, this drawback significantly degrades the performance of the overall network system. This network switcher allows an improvement on the performance of network systems that has a number of nodes.

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patent: 5394402 (1995-02-01), Ross
patent: 5617421 (1997-04-01), Chin et al.
patent: 5825772 (1996-04-01), Dobbins

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