Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Pulse or data error handling – Digital data error correction
Patent
1995-11-30
1999-08-17
Grant, William
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Pulse or data error handling
Digital data error correction
3952001, 39520013, 395825, G08C 2502
Patent
active
059387866
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method is provided for asynchronously transmitting data across fiber optical cables in a serial manner. Frames are provided as a mechanism to transmit associated data over a serial link and to tie the data being transmitted to a particular buffer set. Each outstanding request for each buffer set is individually timed to detect lost frames, and each buffer set maintains a state that keeps track of the progress and sequence of received frames. When transmission errors occur in the frames, the errors may affect only the information field in which case there is enough information in the header to identify the frame. If a frame is damaged, any outstanding operations for the affected buffer set are cleared, and any commands are brought to a logical ending point. The computer system which originates the frames is then notified of the specific nature of the error, and which information is supplied to help the originating computer system efficiently conclude the recovery procedure.
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Cutter Lawrence D.
Ehrlich Marc A.
Grant William
International Business Machines - Corporation
Marc McDieunel
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