Appeal No. 96-3763
Application 07/946,509
asynchronous connection means for establishing asyn-
chronously a plurality of concurrently active point-to-point
communication paths, in response to a plurality of point-to-
point path connection requests received at a plurality of the
network input ports, for transmitting concurrently a plurality
of data messages received at said plurality of the network
input ports to a plurality of the network output ports;
said nodes each further comprising:
message header generation means for automatically
generating and prefixing to a selected data message to a
coupled network input port a message header having a plurality
of data fields, said message header generation means imple-
mented in hardware and automatically generating the message
header in response to being selectively activated by said
means for sending a data message to a coupled network input
port.
20. The switch network according to claim 18,
wherein the message header generation means includes means for
maintaining selected ones of the plurality of data fields
constant for each said selected data message to a coupled
network input port.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Takada et al. (Takada) 5,220,562 June 15,
1993
Childs et al. (Childs) 5,250,943 Oct. 5,
1993
Filepp et al. (Filepp) 5,347,632 Sept. 13,
1994
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