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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. 18, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yosef Bitton, Rochester, MN (US);
Randall Scott Nelson, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709248 ; 709228 ; 709230 ; 709250 ; 714 55 ; 714708 ;
Abstract
A computer system, program product and method enhances the operation of a communications protocol by monitoring timers associated with the protocol to determine the transmission requirements placed on a transmit queue. The number of frames to be enqueued at a particular system tick is dynamically modified to prevent queue overload. In one embodiment the expiration of timers is adjusted to prevent queue overload. In another embodiment, frame transmission at timer expiry is adjusted to prevent queue overload.