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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2003
Takeo Hosomi, Tokyo, JP;
Takeo Hosomi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a system control method, a transaction is transmitted from a control processing apparatus to remaining control processing apparatuses via a connection network, and held in a home reception buffer through a transmitting circuit. Transactions read out from the home reception buffer the respective reception buffers are ordered and output through an arbitrating circuit. Predetermined transactions are exchanged among the respective control processing apparatuses, and specific entries in which received transactions should be written and specific entries from which transactions should be output to the arbitrating circuit are determined through the transmitting circuit and the receiving circuits, thereby setting identical combinations of transactions which the arbitrating circuit is to read out from the home reception buffer and the plurality of reception buffers in all the control processing apparatuses. A control processing system and control processing apparatus are also disclosed.