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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2002
Joseph Rash, Wake Forrest, NC (US);
Daniel Yingling, Apex, NC (US);
Robert Oden, Raleigh, NC (US);
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for initiating the reassembly of received packet fragments in a multilink communication network. The method comprises: receiving packet fragments with corresponding sequence numbers; counting the number of fragments received since the initiation of a pervious packet fragment reassembly; and, initiating packet fragment reassembly in response to the fragment count. Some aspects of the method further comprise: establishing a threshold; and, comparing the fragment count to the threshold. Then, initiating packet fragment reassembly includes initiating packet fragment reassembly when the fragment count equals the threshold. Other aspects of the method comprise tracking a RFC-1990 M value. Then, establishing a threshold includes establishing a WITH_M_UPDATE threshold. Initiating packet fragment reassembly includes initiating packet fragment reassembly in response to the combination of: the fragment count equaling the WITH_M_UPDATE threshold; and, the M value changing since the initiation of a pervious packet fragment reassembly.