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Patent No.:

US 6490281 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002

Filed:

Dec. 23, 1998

Apparatus including a scalable multiprotocol communications adapter using modular components and a method for transmitting data frames via scalable multiprotocol communication adapters

Applicant:
Inventors:

Joseph Michael Abler, Raleigh, NC (US);

William Woollcott Ellington, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);

William Gavin Holland, Cary, NC (US);

Francis Edward Noel, Jr., Durham, NC (US);

Lorrie Ann Tomek, Durham, NC (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Chau Nguyen

Assistant Examiner:

Alexander O Boakye

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ;
Abstract

A programmable multispeed communication apparatus includes a plurality of identical media access control (MAC) units for use with a programmable data processing system. The MAC units when multiplexed and connected to a communication media achieve a transmission speed n·s where n is the number of MAC units and s is the speed of the individual MACs. If one or more but not all of the MAC units fail, the apparatus will operate in degraded mode with the remaining active MAC units. User frames are sequentially numbered, partitioned into sequentially numbered partitions which are assigned to one or more MAC's. Each of the partitions includes a prefix which includes the sequential frame number, the sequential partition number and an indicator for distinguishing the last partition of a frame from the other partitions of that frame.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Abler, Joseph. (2002). Apparatus including a scalable multiprotocol communications adapter using modular components and a method for transmitting data frames via scalable multiprotocol communication adapters (U.S. Patent No. 6490281). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6490281

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