Hewlett-Packard Company

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James G Wendt

Patrick W Fulghum

Todd A Fischer

Russell Campbell

Kevin N Smith

Paul R Sorenson

Thomas Stanley Gale

Christian J Warling

Steven J Jahr

Brian Michael Dowling

John David Beninga

James Eugene Clough

A fly-by checksum is generated at a lower layer of the protocol stack and travels up to a high layer of a protocol stack to verify incoming data. In one embodiment, a network adapter comprises includes one or more protocol stacks and a LAN controller that includes a fly-by checksum generation unit. A checksum algorithm is registered with the fly-by checksum generation unit for each protocol layer that is to receive a fly-by checksum. As an incoming packet is transferred from network media to network adapter memory, the fly-by checksum generation unit calculates a fly-by checksum for each checksum algorithm that has been registered. After the fly-by checksums are complete, they are transmitted to the network adapter memory and are transmitted up the appropriate protocol stack within a checksum channel. When data reaches a layer of the protocol stack for which the fly-by checksum was generated, the fly-by checksum is removed from the checksum channel and is used to verify the integrity of the data.

Hardware checksum assist for network protocol stacks

A Web-based peripheral management solution based upon JAVA applets and a top-level user interface (UI) generator located on a content server includes HTTP daemons (i.e. Web servers) which run on both a peripheral device interface and a host machine content server. Web browser accesses to the peripheral device HTTP daemon for peripheral or other content are redirected by the peripheral device HTTP daemon to a content server where the actual HTML or JAVA applet files are stored. The peripheral device interface also generates HTML stub files to aid in redirecting accesses to JAVA applets on the content server.

Method and apparatus for providing increased content from a resource

A peripheral system includes (a) a peripheral device having peripheral memory located thereon, (b) at least one input/output (I/O) card communicating with the peripheral device, and (c) a means for managing the peripheral memory between the peripheral device and the at least one I/O card. In a preferred embodiment, the means for managing the peripheral memory includes (a) a means for determining, during normal operation, an optimum amount of peripheral memory for allocating to each I/O card, and (b) a means for allocating, during normal operation, the optimum amount of peripheral memory to each I/O card. A preferred method for managing memory, between a peripheral device, having peripheral memory thereon, and at least one input/output (I/O) card, includes (a) determining, during normal operation, an optimum amount of peripheral memory for allocating to each I/O card, and (b) allocating, during normal operation, the optimum amount of peripheral memory to each I/O card.

Dynamic peripheral control of I/O buffers in peripherals with modular I/O

A packet-based communication system is described for linking a peripheral unit (PU) to the outside world via a communications link. The system includes a modular interface unit (MIU) which has a memory shared by processors in both the PU and MIU. The system employs control packets, read packets and write packets and performs a method for allocating the shared memory that optimizes memory utilization. The system determines a ratio of read to write packets required in the operation of the PU, and it ignores that ratio if the communications link will not transmit write packets. If the communication link will transmit write packets, it allocates read and write packet space within the shared memory in accordance with the ratio. The system also includes apparatus for enabling MIU configuration via user/keyboard inputs through the PU with the MIU providing the question and answer messages. This feature allows the PU to adapt to many different communication links, simply by replacement and user configuration of the MIU. The system further includes apparatus for rapidly handling network protocol headers. Those headers are stored along with the data packets and when the packet is accessed by the PU from shared memory, pointers are employed to enable access of only the data portions of such packets while ignoring the network protocol header portions.

Modular interface

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Auburn, CA, United States of America

James G Wendt