Patent ID: 6717912
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A communication system comprising,a plurality of sources for supplying information, a plurality of destinations for receiving said information from said sources, one or more nodes forming a network connecting the sources to the destinations, said network having a plurality of channels for transporting said information where, for each channel, one of said plurality of sources is linked to one of said plurality of destinations through said network by linking forward paths from one or more nodes, said one of said plurality of destinations is linked to said one of said plurality of sources through said network by linking return paths from said one or more nodes, and where each of said one or more nodes includes queueing means for queueing said information from said plurality of sources, each of said queueing means including, buffer memory having a full buffer capacity and a used buffer capacity less than or equal to said full buffer capacity where each of said sources has a used source buffer capacity that is a portion of the used buffer capacity of said buffer memory, indicator means for indicating the used source buffer capacity for each of said sources and the used buffer capacity of said buffer memory, dynamic allocation means for allocating for each of said sources, as a particular source, an allocated source buffer capacity for said used source buffer capacity in said buffer memory for said particular source as a function of the used buffer capacity of said buffer memory in relation to the full capacity and as a function of said used source buffer capacity for said particular source.