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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
David LaFollette, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jerrold Hauck, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/240 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/240 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining a gap count for a serial bus network is described. A round-trip delay time for transmitting a packet from a first leaf node to a second leaf node and back over a communication path between the nodes for each pair of leaf nodes in the network is determined. A maximum round-trip delay time for each communication path is calculated. A node latency delay time for each leaf node in the network is determined. A longest maximum round-trip delay time and a longest node latency delay time is selected for the network, and a gap count is calculated using the selected times.