H - Electricity – 04 – Q
Patent
H - Electricity
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Q
344/25
H04Q 11/04 (2006.01) H04L 12/64 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1260584
BURST-SWITCHING METHOD FOR AN INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM ABSTRACT This disclosure provides methods for processing and routing bursts in an integrated communications system. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a plurality of switches interconnected by time-divided communications links and a plurality of ports, each port being a component of a switch and each link having processing capacity sufficient to support T1 or higher transmission rates. Each port provides access to the system for a control processor, an end-user, or another communications system. Each switch has switching intelligence for routing a burst toward its destination port. A burst is a plurality of bytes which may represent a block of data or a spurt of voice energy as sensed by silence/voice detectors located at voice ports. In the methods provided by the invention, a burst may be introduced into the system through a port, routed through a switch to an outgoing link, or received from the system at a port. The methods of the invention employ dynamic allocation of bursts to channels within communications links such that any channel is allocated only when a burst is being transmitted therein and the channel is otherwise available for transmission of another burst.
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Amstutz Stanford R.
Haselton E. Fletcher
Lenart Joseph M.
Gte Laboratories Incorporated
R. William Wray & Associates
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