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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2001
Applicants:
John E. Jenne, Houston, TX (US);
Mark Lyndon Oelke, Spring, TX (US);
Sompong Paul Olarig, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Inventors:
John E. Jenne, Houston, TX (US);
Mark Lyndon Oelke, Spring, TX (US);
Sompong Paul Olarig, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Maxxan Systems, Incorporated, Santa Clara County, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for providing flow control for a computer network is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, buffer-to-buffer credit flow control is implemented to limit the amount of data a port may send based on the number and size of the frames sent from that port.