Abstract:
FIG. 1 is a back, left, and top perspective view of the safety push stick; FIG. 2 is a front, right, and bottom perspective view thereof; FIG. 3 is a left side view thereof; FIG. 4 is a right side view thereof; FIG. 5 is a front view thereof; FIG. 6 is a back view thereof; FIG. 7 is a top view thereof, rotated 90 degrees clockwise; and, FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof, rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
Abstract:
A switch node includes arbiter logic configured to gather global information regarding switching requests within the switch node and to control switching of one or more packets through the switch node. The arbiter logic may include a bus snooping interface configured to detect the switching requests within the switch node. The bus snooping interface includes a plurality of switching request destination registers configured to store switching request destination information from the detected switching requests. In addition, the arbiter logic includes a packet switching request array configured to transmit a next switching request within the switch node according to prior switching request destination information stored in the switching request destination registers. The switching of the one or more packets may be through a cross-point switch matrix in the switch node.
Abstract:
In a digital switch, incoming cells are placed into a queue in a cell memory. The switch maintains various cell queues, including VC queues that correspond to individual connections and QBin queues that correspond to various classes of service. Cells may arrive to a VC queue or a QBin queue but will depart from a QBin queue. Accordingly, cells may be moved from VC queues to QBin queues. Cells are serviced according to the use of QBin Groups. A QBin Group (QBG) includes a number of logical queues (QBins) of cells to be transported in the digital network. After a QBG is selected, one of its logical queues is selected for servicing. The QBG may be selected by examining all of the QBGs to find an eligible QBG which is most overdue for service. A QBin of the selected QBG may then be selected by examining each of the QBins comprising the selected QBG to find the most overdue for service. The QBGs may correspond to virtual interfaces.
Abstract:
A method for operating a router which combines virtual channels is disclosed, where both forward and reverse directed resource management cells are used to control transmission rate of a source computer. The merging router receives forward directed resource management cells from a plurality of upstream routers, where each forward directed resource management cell represents a virtual channel. The router: (1) replies to each upstream router with a reverse directed resource management cell; and (2) forwards to a downstream router a combined forward directed resource management cell, the combined forward directed resource management cell combining a plurality of virtual channels established between the router and the plurality of upstream routers.
Abstract:
A transaction for purchasable content is facilitated over an electronic network, wherein the purchasable content includes downloadable digital data. A first presence is maintained on the electronic network to which a consumer may connect. A first page is transmitted from the first presence to the consumer over the electronic network, such that the first page includes information concerning the purchasable content. A command is received from the consumer over the electronic network indicating that the consumer wishes the transaction for the purchasable content. The consumer is automatically linked to a second presence on the electronic network in response to the command such that the consumer may interact with the second presence over the electronic network to complete the transaction for the purchasable content.
Abstract:
A method for cell replication in which a request for data transmission and mapping information are received by a crossbar and a scheduler and are sent by one of a plurality of software configurable slot remap registers. The mapping information is indicative of a destination slot and a backup destination slot to which the data is to be transmitted. The method replicates the data by transmitting the data to the destination slot and to the backup destination slot when the data arrives at an input slot of the crossbar.
Abstract:
A system and method for controlling the imaging device in a single pass multi color electrophotographic printing machine, includes a photoconductive member defining a timing aperture, the member moving along a path in a printing machine and a plurality of imaging devices, each one of the plurality of imaging devices writing a latent image on the photoconductive member. The system further includes a sensor, located adjacent the photoconductive member, to sense the aperture in the photoconductive member as it passes the sensor and generate a signal indicative thereof and a control device, which generates a timing signal for each of the plurality of imaging devices as a function of the signal generated by the sensor and a plurality of predetermined parameters.