Patent Document ID: 5541913
Application ID: 08382654
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. Policing device (PD) including processing means (PP1, PP2) for applying respective ones of a plurality of police algorithm instances to respective ones of a plurality of cell streams and each of said police algorithm instances having a conformance check part (C) for deriving a conformance signal (CS1, CS2) indicating whether or not a cell handled by said conformance check part (C) is satisfactory or not and an update part (U) for calculating an updated value of a parameter used by said police algorithm instances wherein said processing means (PP1, PP2) is able to produce for each cell a plurality of said conformance signals (CS1, CS2) in parallel and to supply them to an arbitration module (AM) also included in said device (PD) and which derives from said conformance signals a discard signal (DS) indicating whether or not said cell is to be discarded from an output cell stream (OUT) depending on said discard signal being active or not, respectively, as well as a plurality of feedback signals (FS1, FS2) provided to respective ones of said police algorithm instances and indicating whether or not the value of said parameter needs to be replaced by said updated value in said respective ones of said police algorithm instances, said update part depending on said feedback signals being active or not respectively.