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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1999
Glen H. Lowe, Union City, CA (US);
Leslie Thorne, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary Takushi, Milpitas, CA (US);
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method to dynamically adjust the maximum back off time of an Ethernet controller in a half duplex network. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention includes a method for providing priority to a peripheral component (e.g., half duplex Network Interface Card) in a congested network. The method includes the step of determining a maximum back off time limit based on a number of collisions a first data packet encounters before being transmitted over a network. Furthermore, the method includes the step of detecting a collision of a second data packet during transmission of the second data packet by the peripheral component coupled to the network. Additionally, the method also includes the step of determining a back off time. It should be appreciated that the back off time is substantially equal to or less than the maximum back off time limit. Moreover, the method includes the step of causing the peripheral component to wait the back off time before trying to retransmit the second data packet over the network.