Packet fluctuation absorbing method and apparatus

Details Packet fluctuation absorbing method and apparatus Packet fluctuation absorbing method and apparatus

2005-02-01

2005-02-01

Chin, Wellington (Department: 2664)

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Store and forward

C370S428000, C370S235000, C370S412000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06850537

ABSTRACT:
In a packet fluctuation absorbing method and apparatus of the present invention, packets from a preceding node of a network are received. The packets are temporarily retained in a buffer. The respective packets are read from the buffer in the order of receiving of the packets at given time instants. The read packets are output to a following node of the network so as to absorb time-related fluctuations of the packets. A lower limit of the buffer that is predetermined as being larger than zero is stored. When the number of retained packets in the buffer is less than the stored lower limit as a result of the outputting of one of the read packets and a use count of the corresponding one of the read packets is equal to or larger than a predetermined use count upper limit, the corresponding packet in the retained packets of the buffer is discarded.

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