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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1988
Hang Diem Nguyen, Fremont, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for use in a Token ring network including a plurality of stations serially connected by a transmission medium so as to form a closed loop on which packets of data are circulated, wherein each respective station includes a media access controller and a buffer memory, the method including the steps of transferring data of a respective packet from a media access controller to a buffer memory; storing the data in a sequence of contiguous memory locations in the buffer memory; in the course of the step of transferring the data, generating status information for the data; after said step of storing the data, storing the status information in the buffer memory contiguously with the stored data at the beginning of the sequence of memory locations in which the data are stored.