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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:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles S. Johnson, San Jose, CA (US);
Muhammad Shafiq, El Granada, CA (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; G06F 1/5173 ; H04L 1/256 ; H03K 1/9003 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; G06F 1/5173 ; H04L 1/256 ; H03K 1/9003 ;
Abstract
In a multiple processing system comprising multiple communicatively interconnected nodes, each node having one or more processor units, multicast messages sent by a sender node will contain information that allows intended receiver nodes to check and determine the possibility that earlier-sent multicast messages from the sender node were not received by the receiver node.