Patents Examined by Ajlt Patel
  • System and method of operating the system that responds to channel change requests without causing macro-blocking
    Patent number: 7274712
    Abstract: A router stores a value that indicates the maximum number of channels that can be output to a group, and the number of channels that are output to the group. When a member of the group indicates a channel change selection from a first channel to a second channel, the router drops the first channel before outputting the second channel when the maximum number of channels and the number of channels are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Tellabs Petaluma, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Tsz-Chiu Wong, Zhidan Cheng