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Data formats for telecommunications networks
Assignee: Alcatel Lucent Holdings Inc
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Filing: 1994-12-13
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Granted: 1996-06-11
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Expires: 2014-12-13
Abstract
Abstract Three data formats for telecommunication networks are provided. One format is an asynchronous packet bus overlay datagram format (122) constructed to include an internal datagram header (140) and a datagram payload (141) concatenated with the internal datagram header. The internal datagram header comprises a destination address (146), a weighted age (152), and a source address (14). A second format is a wideband bus overlay format (126) comprising three header octets and a plurality of payload octets such that the data is formatted into one of a plurality of industry standard isochronous wideband data formats. A third format is a narrow band bus overlay format (124) comprising a plurality of signaling octets, a plurality of octets concatenated with the first plurality of signaling octets to hold data, and a common system multiframe structure.
Inventors
- 👤 Felix V. Diaz
- 👤 Raymond L. Hogg
- 👤 Daniel J. Raz
- 👤 Kathy A. Thompson
- 👤 Gregory L. Langdon
- 👤 W. Keith Brewer
Bibliographic Details
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2026-11-04 16:04
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L12/00; H04L12/54; H04L12/56; H04L12/5601; H04J; H04J3/00; H04J3/16; H04J3/1605; H04J3/1611; H04L12/64; H04L12/6402; H04Q; H04Q11/00; H04Q11/04; H04Q11/0428; H04Q11/0478; H04J2203/00; H04J2203/0001; H04J2203/0089; H04L2012/5603; H04L2012/5609; H04L2012/5613; H04L2012/5638; H04L2012/5646; H04L2012/5652; H04L2012/5653; H04L2012/5658; H04L2012/5665; H04L2012/5672; H04L2012/5678; H04L2012/5679
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
53 words
A packet bus overlay datagram format, comprising: an internal datagram header comprising a destination address, a weighted age, and a source address, wherein the weighted age includes an age of the datagram and a weighting factor associated with the datagram; and a datagram payload concatenated with the internal datagram header comprising payload data.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
53 words
A packet bus overlay datagram format, comprising: an internal datagram header comprising a destination address, a weighted age, and a source address, wherein the weighted age includes an age of the datagram and a weighting factor associated with the datagram; and a datagram payload concatenated with the internal datagram header comprising payload data.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
19 words
The packet bus overlay datagram format of claim 1, wherein the internal datagram header comprises eleven octets of data.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
18 words
The packet bus overlay datagram format of claim 1, wherein the datagram payload comprises fifty-three octets of data.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
The packet bus overlay datagram format of claim 3, wherein the datagram payload comprises fifty-three octets of data representing information held in one asynchronous transfer mode cell.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
66 words
A wideband bus overlay data format, comprising; a first header octet; a second header octet concatenated with the first header octet; a third header octet concatenated with the second header octet, and a plurality of payload octets concatenated with the third header octet such that data formatted in one of a plurality of isochronous wideband data formats is adaptable to the wideband bus overlay data format.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
66 words
A wideband bus overlay data format, comprising; a first header octet; a second header octet concatenated with the first header octet; a third header octet concatenated with the second header octet, and a plurality of payload octets concatenated with the third header octet such that data formatted in one of a plurality of isochronous wideband data formats is adaptable to the wideband bus overlay data format.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
38 words
The wideband bus overlay data format of claim 5, wherein the plurality of payload octets comprises seven hundred eighty three octets, and the one of a plurality of isochronous wideband data formats comprises an STS-1 synchronous payload envelope.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
35 words
The wideband bus overlay data format of claim 5, wherein the plurality of payload octets comprises seven hundred eighty three octets, and the one of a plurality of isochronous wideband data formats comprises a TU-3.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
103 words
A narrowband bus overlay data format, comprising; a first plurality of octets operable to hold data representing a plurality of signaling bits; a second plurality of octets concatenated with the first plurality of octets operable to hold data representing transmitted information such that a plurality of isochronous narrowband data formats are adaptable to the narrowband bus overlay data format; and a common system multiframe structure containing at least one of the first plurality of octets and one of the second plurality of octets wherein the common system multiframe system is of a fixed length and supports a plurality of isochronous narrowband data formats.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
103 words
A narrowband bus overlay data format, comprising; a first plurality of octets operable to hold data representing a plurality of signaling bits; a second plurality of octets concatenated with the first plurality of octets operable to hold data representing transmitted information such that a plurality of isochronous narrowband data formats are adaptable to the narrowband bus overlay data format; and a common system multiframe structure containing at least one of the first plurality of octets and one of the second plurality of octets wherein the common system multiframe system is of a fixed length and supports a plurality of isochronous narrowband data formats.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
25 words
The narrowband bus overlay data format of claim 8, wherein the plurality of isochronous narrowband data formats comprises a T1 structure and an E1 structure.
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