US 7,333,511 Dynamically channelizable packet transport network

1. A network system for maximizing its data throughput by adjusting its connection capacities according to their capacity demand variations, the network system comprising: a set of nodes including one or more source nodes and a destination node, each source node having a capacity demand figure toward the destination node, a logical data transport bus, referred to as a bus, configured to transfer data packets from the source nodes to the destination node, the bus having an aggregate capacity that can be channelized to source node specific connections, which have an adjustable data transport capacity and each of which transports data packets from its source node to the destination node without packet-layer processing in between its source node and the destination node, and digital logic at the destination node configured to allocate the aggregate capacity of the bus among its source nodes by adjusting the capacities of the source node specific connections on the bus at least in part based on the capacity demand figures from the source nodes toward the destination node of the network system.

20. A method for allocating a total data transport bandwidth on a data packet transport bus referred to as a bus, said bus having two or more data sources and a destination, said bus further providing source-specific variable-bandwidth channels from the individual sources of the bus to the destination of the bus for transporting data packets from the individual sources to the destination of the bus, the sources of the bus having their associated data traffic loads toward the destination of the bus, the method executed periodically once per a period of time referred to as an algorithm period, the method comprising: allocating, by the destination of the bus, said total bus bandwidth among said individual sources based at least in part on the traffic loads associated with the individual sources of the bus, assigning, by the destination of the bus, units of bus bandwidth for the source-specific channels on the bus according to the allocating of the bus bandwidth, and transporting data packets over the bus from the source nodes to the destination node based on the assigning of units of bus bandwidth for the source-specific channels.

29. A process for optimizing capacity allocation within a data transport network system referred to as a network system, the network system comprising a set of ingress interfaces, an egress interface, and a capacity pool for transporting data packets from the set of ingress interfaces to the egress interface of the network system, the process having a repeating process cycle, each process cycle comprising the steps: optimizing, by the egress interface, allocation of said capacity pool among the individual ingress interfaces for transport of data packets from the ingress interfaces to the egress interface based at least in part on demand for network capacity by the individual ingress interfaces for transporting data from them to the egress interface of the network system, assigning, by the egress interface, units of capacity within said capacity pool to said individual ingress interfaces according to the optimizing of capacity allocation, and transporting data packets from the ingress interfaces nodes to the egress interface based on the assigning of units of capacity within said capacity pool.