Token based flow control for data communication

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2011-03-15

2011-03-15

Jean, Frantz B (Department: 2454)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer network managing

Computer network access regulating

Reexamination Certificate

active

07908372

ABSTRACT:
An embodiment of one of the inventions disclosed herein is a computer system that includes a plurality of interconnected computational hosts, each of which are connected to one of a plurality of buffers. Each of the buffers includes a plurality of buffer spaces. Each of the computational hosts may be configured such that each transfer of a data packet from one of the plurality of computational hosts acting as a source of the data packet to another one of the plurality of computational hosts acting as a destination of the data packet is controlled by an availability of buffer spaces in the buffer coupled to the destination computational host.

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