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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
David S. Bormann, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kirk W. Skeba, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ; H04L 1/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ; H04L 1/228 ;
Abstract
Transmitting data on a serial data transmission path to reduce latency including reading only enough of a device address of a serial data word to determine if the serial data word is addressed to a first device having an address, wherein the serial data word is transmitted across a first link of a first serial data transmission path to the first device and passing the serial data word across a second link of the first serial data transmission path to a second device if the serial data word is not addressed to the first device.