| US 7,499,468 B2 | ||
| Method of adapting an optical network to provide lightpaths to dynamically assigned higher priority traffic | ||
| Charles Donald Montgomery, Jr., 1432 Cross Bend Rd., Plano, Tex. 75032 (US) | ||
| Filed on Jun. 24, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/602,145. | ||
| Application 10/602145 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/118084, filed on Apr. 08, 2002. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/282318, filed on Apr. 06, 2001. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0057453 A1, Mar. 25, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04L 12/403 (2006.01); H04J 3/02 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—453 [370/462] | 19 Claims |
| 1. An optical network having nodes and optical links between nodes, comprising:
a plurality of data channels;
a control channel;
tokens which pass between nodes on the control channel;
wherein tokens advertise availability of receivers at a destination node and notify a source when a transmission did not succeed;
and
wherein nodes evaluate the tokens to determine if a data payload is destined for and simultaneously arriving at that node
on one of the data channels; and
wherein each token carries a first field for advertising availability of receivers and a second field for notifying a source
when a transmission does not succeed due to receiver preemption.
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