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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
May. 29, 1998
Gareth P. O'Loughlin, Ottawa, CA;
Michel J. P. Patoine, Ashton, CA;
J. Morgan Smail, Stittsville, CA;
Alcatel Canada Inc., Kanata, CA;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing transportation of data include processing that begins by polling a plurality of local memory entities for transportation of data, wherein the polling is based on a linked list. When a currently polled local memory entity has data to transport, the processing obtains channels status of a logical channel associated with the currently polled memory entity. Note that the data to transport is contained within a data word that includes a data portion and a tag. Regardless of whether the data to transport is to be transported from local memory to non-local memory or from the non-local memory to local memory, the processing determines data block status based on the data word, wherein the data block is stored in non-local memory. Next, the processing provides, or retrieves, the data portion of the data word to, or from, the non-local memory based on at least one of the channel status, the data word, and the data block status.