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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1988
Gordon T Davis, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Robert E Landa, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Baiju D Mandalia, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Jan W van den Berg, Boca Raton, FL (US);
David C Van Voorhis, Boca Raton, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A special purpose communications protocol processor (CPP) provides more efficient processing of layered communications protocols--e.g. SNA (Systems Network Architecture) and OSI (Open Systems Interconnection)--than contemporary general purpose processors, permitting hitherto unavailable operations relative to high speed communication links. The CPP contains special-purpose circuits dedicated to quick performance (e.g. single machine cycle execution) of functions needed to process header and frame information, such functions and information being of the sort repeatedly encountered in all protocol layers, and uses instructions architected to operate these circuits. The header processing functions given special treatment in this manner include priority branch determination functions, register bit reshaping (rearranging) functions, and instruction address processing functions. Frame processing functions so handled include CRC (cyclic redundancy check) computations, bit insertion/deletion operations and special character detection operations.