System for effective allocation of network-wide bandwidth

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5548579
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08493066

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To address Quality of Service (QoS) requirements in a domain of Local Area Networks(LANs) interconnected by at least one FDDI segment, network-wide bandwidth allocation is improved by a high availability Third Party Requestor (3PR) agent. The 3PR receives from the QoS Allocator all information that it needs to ask for bandwidth reservation on the FDDI segment. Following a Station Management standard, the 3PR is able to act on behalf of an FDDI station that will submit synchronous traffic and ask for bandwidth allocation to a Synchronous Bandwidth Allocator (SBA). According to the SBA decision, the 3PR will then answer to the network-centralized QoS Allocator which will grant or deny the allocation over the whole path within the LAN domain. If for some reason, the acting SBA function moves to another station, the 3PR at the new station will become active.

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CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA170 W TASMAN DRIVE SAN JOSE CA 95134

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Francois, Pascal Vence, FR 3 132
Lebrun, Eric Saint Jeannet, FR 15 539
Raimbault, Frederic Cagnes-Sur-Mer, FR 2 105
Warren, Jeff Apex, NC 2 99

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