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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:
Apr. 02, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1994
Sherri E Cook, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Andrew B McNeill, Jr, Deerfield Beach, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a tree topology network, a method for determining the maximum transfer speed for data packets transmitted over a high performance acyclic serial bus is disclosed. The acyclic serial bus, patterned along the lines of the IEEE 1394 standard, is capable of operating at multiple transmission rates, depending upon the transmission rate of any particular node. Once the transfer speeds have been determined by finding transmission rates to and from an ancestor node, an efficient storage technique for representing the transfer speeds is also disclosed. The method supports packet speed selection for all types of data packets allowed by the IEEE standard, such as, for example, asynchronous, isochronous and broadcast packets.