Patent ID: 7333511

Claim:
A network system for maximizing its data throughput by adjusting its connection capacities according to their capacity demand variations, the network system comprising: a set of nodes including one or more source nodes and a destination node, each source node having a capacity demand figure toward the destination node, a logical data transport bus, referred to as a bus, configured to transfer data packets from the source nodes to the destination node, the bus having an aggregate capacity that can be channelized to source node specific connections, which have an adjustable data transport capacity and each of which transports data packets from its source node to the destination node without packet-layer processing in between its source node and the destination node, and digital logic at the destination node configured to allocate the aggregate capacity of the bus among its source nodes by adjusting the capacities of the source node specific connections on the bus at least in part based on the capacity demand figures from the source nodes toward the destination node of the network system.