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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Laurent Stadler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Laurent Stadler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F013/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An existing field of a descriptor is used to store metadata associated with a block of data to be transferred. The metadata is sent to a device using a special command when transferring the block of data from a memory to the device. The metadata is sent to the device using an existing bus. The metadata is sent to the device from the field of the descriptor. The metadata may carry packet boundary information, transmit status information, or receive status information.