Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Multicomputer data transferring via shared memory – Accessing another computer's memory
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-27
2005-12-27
Follansbee, John (Department: 2154)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Multicomputer data transferring via shared memory
Accessing another computer's memory
C711S147000, C711S148000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06981027
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for memory management in a network processing system provides for allocation of physical memory areas within network processors coupled to a control point processor by a bus. The allocation scheme provides a memory management layer without requiring a complete operating system interface and supports asynchronous completion of the allocation requests. Multicast allocation is supported allowing an allocation to be simultaneously requested on multiple network processors. The allocation mechanism returns a token, which may then be used to access the memory location via a protocol over the bus, and a single token may refer to an allocation made on several network processors where the actual physical addresses and memory configurations are different.
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Gallo Anthony Matteo
Hariharan Seeta
Heddes Marco C.
Rao Sridhar
Verrilli Colin Beaton
Cockburn Josh G.
Dillon & Yudell LLP
Follansbee John
International Business Machines - Corporation
Nguyen Dustin
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