Multiplex communications – Pathfinding or routing – Through a circuit switch
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-27
2008-05-27
Vu, Thong (Department: 2619)
Multiplex communications
Pathfinding or routing
Through a circuit switch
C711S167000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07379453
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for facilitating transfer of packets from communication hardware to a host computing device or software. After receiving s set of packets at a communication interface, the system writes in a hybrid buffer a type II completion line configured to identify a payload buffer in which payloads of packets are stored. For each packet, the system writes a type I completion line configured to indicate the length of a packet's header in the hybrid buffer and the length and/or offset of the packet's payload in the payload buffer. A type 0 completion line indicates that no more packets are stored in the payload buffer. The system then signals the host computing device by configuring a single completion descriptor to identify the hybrid buffer in which the completion lines are stored. The host computing device reads the single completion descriptor to process the packets.
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Park Vaughan & Fleming LLP
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Vu Thong
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