Apparatus and method for communicating with a network

Details Apparatus and method for communicating with a network Apparatus and method for communicating with a network

2003-02-08

2008-11-11

Chan, Wing F (Department: 2619)

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Switching a message which includes an address header

C370S465000, C370S395400

Reexamination Certificate

active

07450599

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for communicating with a network comprises a packet pointer pool, a queue, logic, and a network interface. The packet pointer pool has a plurality of entries that respectively point to different memory blocks. The logic is configured to pull one of the entries from the packet pointer pool. Such logic is configured to store a data packet in one of the memory blocks pointed to by the one entry and to insert the one entry into the queue. Logic is configured to pull the one entry from the queue and to retrieve the data packet from the one memory block based on the one entry. The network interface is configured to communicate the data packet with a network.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4475192 (1984-10-01), Fernow et al.
patent: 4933932 (1990-06-01), Quinquis et al.
patent: 5016248 (1991-05-01), Kudoh
patent: 5291482 (1994-03-01), McHarg et al.
patent: 5303302 (1994-04-01), Burrows
patent: 5610914 (1997-03-01), Yamada
patent: 5701427 (1997-12-01), Lathrop
patent: 5802058 (1998-09-01), Harris et al.
patent: 5805589 (1998-09-01), Hochschild et al.
patent: 6018746 (2000-01-01), Hill et al.
patent: 6021516 (2000-02-01), Okajima et al.
patent: 6088745 (2000-07-01), Bertagna et al.
patent: 6128295 (2000-10-01), Larsson et al.
patent: 6181705 (2001-01-01), Branstad et al.
patent: 6212165 (2001-04-01), Mann et al.
patent: 6233244 (2001-05-01), Runaldue et al.
patent: 6266701 (2001-07-01), Sridhar et al.
patent: 6392993 (2002-05-01), Hamilton et al.
patent: 6400695 (2002-06-01), Chuah et al.
patent: 6445717 (2002-09-01), Gibson et al.
patent: 6539431 (2003-03-01), Sitaraman et al.
patent: 6724767 (2004-04-01), Chong et al.
patent: 6879587 (2005-04-01), Yadav et al.
patent: 2002/0172294 (2002-11-01), Cheng
Adamson, et al.,NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Protocol Building Blocks, Proceedings of the Fourty-Ninth Internet Engineering Task Force (Jul. 2000) < http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/00dec/I-D/draft-ietf-rmt-morm-bb-00.txt.
Adamson, et al.,NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast Protocol (NORM), Proceedings of the Fourty-Ninth Internet Engineering Task Force (Nov. 2000) < http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/00dec/I-D/draft-ietf-rmt-morm-00.txt.
Walls, et al., System and Method for Buffering Data Received From a Network, U.S. Appl. No. 10/361,742, filed Feb. 8, 2003.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Apparatus and method for communicating with a network does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Apparatus and method for communicating with a network, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Apparatus and method for communicating with a network will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4032087