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US 7,573,896 · App. 11/250,873 · Granted Aug 11, 2009

Method and apparatus for generic interface, packet cut-through, overbooking, queue concatenation, and logical identification priority for a system packet interface device

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Patent No.
US 7,573,896
App. No.
11/250,873
Granted
Aug 11, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and apparatus for generic interface, packet cut-through, overbooking, queue concatenation, and logical identification priority for a System Packet Interface device have been disclosed.

Claims (5)

1. An apparatus comprising:

a system racket interface (SPI) device having one or more interfaces for communicating data wherein said communicating data is one or more rackets of data;

means for associating a logical identification (LID) with said communicating data from said one or more interfaces; and

means for using said LID to provide one or more operations selected from the group consisting of packet mode, packet cut-through, overbooking, queue concatenation, LID based priority, LID based scheduling, and packet fragment processing.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said packet cut-through is per a logical port.

Assignments (2)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2019
From: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
To: INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC.; GIGPEAK, INC.; CHIPX, INCORPORATED; ENDWAVE CORPORATION; MAGNUM SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
Reel/Frame 048746/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 5, 2017
From: INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC.; GIGPEAK, INC.; MAGNUM SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.; ENDWAVE CORPORATION; CHIPX, INCORPORATED
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 042166/0431 →