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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1981
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1979
George A Bigelow, Boulder, CO (US);
Ted A Rehage, Longmont, CO (US);
Frankie S Shook, Longmont, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A buffer storage apparatus has two buffers alternating between receiving and supplying data signals. The buffer functions are alternated between the buffers when one of the buffers is empty and another one of the buffers has received a predetermined number of signals even though that data-receiving buffer is not yet full. With data transferred in blocks of data bytes, switching between buffers occurs on the predetermined address boundaries of the data blocks. Alternation of functions between the buffers can occur at any one of a plurality of address boundaries within the data-receiving one of the buffers. By using a plurality of such buffer storage apparatus to connect individual data burst units to a plural-port high-speed common unit, each data burst unit has a high speed buffered access to the high speed common unit.