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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2015
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

David Harriman, Portland, OR (US);

Jasmin Ajanovic, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/42 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06F 11/0745 (2013.01); G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); H04L 29/0653 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A general input/output communication port implements a communication stack that includes a physical layer, a data link layer and a transaction layer. The transaction layer includes assembling a packet header for a message request transaction to one or more logical devices. The packet header includes a format field to indicate the length of the packet header and to further specify whether the packet header includes a data payload, a subset of a type field to indicate the packet header relates to the message request transaction and a message field. The message field includes a message to implement the message request transaction. The message includes at least one message that is selected from a group of messages. The group of messages to include a message to unlock a logical device, a message to reset a logical device, a message to indicate a correctable error condition, a message to indicate an uncorrectable error condition, a message to indicate a fatal error condition, a message to report a bad request packet, a message to indicate power management and a message to emulate an interrupt signal.


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