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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dwayne R Bennett, Scarboroough, CA;
Assignee:
McData Corporation, Broomfield, CO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04L / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375372 ; 375370 ; 375356 ; 370412 ; 370413 ; 370422 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for delaying frames received asynchronously from a fiber channel port until receive memory is properly sequenced for storing the delayed frames in which a circular buffer is positioned on the data path between the fiber channel port and the receive memory for delaying the frames in accordance with control signals generated by a sequencer having knowledge of the receive memory sequence count.