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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1994
Thomas A Gregg, Highland, NY (US);
Joseph M Hoke, Millerton, NY (US);
Albert Ing, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Chin Lee, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for asynchronously transmitting data across fibers in a serial manner. Frames are provided as a mechanism to transmit associated data serially and tie the data being transmitted to a particular buffer set. Each buffer set maintains a state that keeps track of the progress and sequence of received frames. When transmission errors occur in the frames, the errors may affect header bits in the frame that identify the buffer set and the frame type. In this case, the entire frame is lost and the operation usually results in a timeout of the operation. By using this state information some of these lost frames can be recovered avoiding the lengthier timeout recovery procedure.