Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Frame relay switched data service
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Application No.: US14270119Application Date: 2014-05-05
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Publication No.: US09276849B2Publication Date: 2016-03-01
- Inventor: Christopher J. Chase , Stephen L. Holmgren , John Babu Medamana , Vikram R. Saksena
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Main IPC: H04L29/00
- IPC: H04L29/00 ; H04L12/56 ; H04L12/28 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L12/701 ; H04L12/933 ; H04Q11/04 ; H04L12/751 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L12/70

Abstract:
A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information may be used to route a data packet over a packet-switched network according to the service classes, feature sets, and/or CUGs selected. At the destination, the layer 3 data packet may again be enclosed in a layer 2 frame with a DLCI indicating the service classes, features sets, and/or CUGs. Because the use of conventional permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) is not required in aspects of the invention, new methods of measuring and managing network traffic are presented.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140241363A1 FRAME RELAY SWITCHED DATA SERVICE Public/Granted day:2014-08-28
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