Arbitration ring with automatic sizing for a partially populated switching network

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PATENT NO 5883895
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08754688

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Access to a switching network of an ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) switch is scheduled with a reservation ring that automatically determines the number of channels populating the switching network during a switch cycle. The reservation ring is a distributed arbiter that resolves conflicts arising among a plurality of input channels for access to a plurality of output channels of the switching network. Each input channel populating the switching network is coupled to an arbitration unit of the reservation ring. The arbitration units on the ring determine when an arbitration cycle is complete for each of the arbitration units populating the ring. This enables the number of channels populating the switching network to increase or decrease without having to reconfigure the reservation ring.

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XEROX CORPORATION201 MERRITT 7 P O BOX 4505 NORWALK CT 06851-1056

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bell, Alan G Palo Alto, CA 44 2009
Davis, Helen M Palo Alto, CA 8 139
Greene, Daniel H Sunnyvale, CA 110 5747

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