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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2003
Applicants:
Glenn R Engel, Snohomish, WA (US);
Glen L Purdy, Jr., Snohomish, WA (US);
Inventors:
Glenn R Engel, Snohomish, WA (US);
Glen L Purdy, Jr., Snohomish, WA (US);
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F012/00 ; G11C013/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Reducing writes to non-volatile storage in a system for tracking sequence numbers in a communications protocol. In a system which tracks sequence numbers, a sequence number base is kept in non-volatile storage. During normal operation, the value in non-volatile storage is not rewritten until it exceeds the base value in non-volatile storage plus a predetermined update constant. On startup, the sequence number is set to the value in non-volatile storage plus the predetermined update constant.