International Business Machines Corporation

Gerald David Miller

Robert Neal Carlton Broberg, Iii

Paul B Kubista

Within a communication node, low level hardware is programmed and provided with filter data to accept broadcast frames. A high level layer of hardware, utilizing the pre-loaded, pre-defined comparison data, checks incoming frame header information. Based on pre-defined filter data or reference values loaded into low level registers, the high-level hardware will reject or accept submitted data communication frames. This method reduces the requirement for software to operate on each incoming frame header, thus reducing load on the processor.

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Gerald David Miller