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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2000
Samuel Steven Allison, Fuquay-Varina, NC (US);
Brian Mitchell Bass, Apex, NC (US);
Jean Louis Calvignac, Cary, NC (US);
Anthony Matteo Gallo, Apex, NC (US);
Marco C. Heddes, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Steven Siegel, Raleigh, NC (US);
Fabrice Jean Verplanken, Cary, NC (US);
Samuel Steven Allison, Fuquay-Varina, NC (US);
Brian Mitchell Bass, Apex, NC (US);
Jean Louis Calvignac, Cary, NC (US);
Anthony Matteo Gallo, Apex, NC (US);
Marco C. Heddes, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Steven Siegel, Raleigh, NC (US);
Fabrice Jean Verplanken, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method of altering frames being processed by a network processing unit. The system includes a set of defined alterations, with some of the alterations being fixed alterations which are advantageously handled by hardware to accomplish the fixed alterations rapidly and without executing a stored program and other alterations which include a variable portion, with these variable alterations being accomplished through the use of stored programs allowing the variables to be used to effect variable alterations to a frame. The present system accommodates a change in the duration of life of a frame or information unit and addition or deletion of bits and also allows for a new cyclic redundancy checking to be accomplished for a revised information unit. Advantageously, the frame alteration system is on the same substrate as the processors.