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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert M. Nally, McKinney, TX (US);
Douglas M. Hamilton, Littleton, CO (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/336 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/336 ;
Abstract
A system and method for reducing bottlenecks on a computer bus, by offloading specific types of high-bandwidth data from the system bus and passing that data directly to specialized target busses. In the computer system, the system bus, typically a PCI bus, is monitored for addresses corresponding to specific target devices. When these addresses are detected, the corresponding data is diverted from the system bus to the appropriate specialized bus. By doing so, bandwidth across the system bus is reduced, and the specialized data, which may be time-sensitive or real-time audio or video, is passes rapidly to the appropriate processor.