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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Metin Aydemir, Durham, NC (US);
Andrew John Rindos, III, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jorge Rolando Rodriguez, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 3/00 ; H04L 1/250 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 3/00 ; H04L 1/250 ;
Abstract
A system having a high speed switching interface between remote buses is disclosed herein. The system includes a switch fabric to which multiple remote bus interfaces are connected. A programmable flow queue that includes multiple parallel logic flow queues is utilized for scheduling packets in accordance with protocol requirements of the remote bus interface.