Patent ID: 6549518
Filing Date: 2003-04-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A policing apparatus comprising:a cell receiving unit for receiving received cells to temporarily store said received cells and for performing a policing violation process on each of said received cells as a reception cell based on a result of a policing violation determination of said reception cell; a cell data storing section having a cell data storing table for circularly storing a cell identification data of said reception cell; a subscriber data storing section having a subscriber data storing table for storing a management data for every cell identification data, wherein the management data is used for said policing violation determination; and a control unit for: referring to said subscriber data storing table based on said cell identification data of each said reception cell to read said management data, performing said policing violation determination on said reception cell based on the read management data and an address pointer value for said reception cell, outputting said result of said policing violation determination to said cell receiving unit, and storing said cell identification data of said reception cell in said cell data storing table based on said address pointer value.