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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2001
Rudy Bauer, Clinton, MA (US);
Victor W. Tung, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Brian G. Arsenault, Leicester, MA (US);
Stephen L. Scaringella, Holliston, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system having a plurality of processors, each one of the processors being adapted to issue a control signal and a processor ID code. Each one of the processors has: a unique, pre-assigned processor ID code, and a common software program. The software program operates to: receive the control signal and the processor ID code from the issuing one of the processors along with an indication of the one of the processors which issued the particular control signal and processor ID code; and test whether the received processor ID code is the same as the processor issuing the command and if so, generate one of the broadcast mode or uni-cast modes; otherwise, generate the other one of the broadcast or uni-cast modes.