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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2002
Bruce Lavigne, Roseville, CA (US);
Lewis Stephen Kootstra, Roseville, CA (US);
Mark Gooch, Citrus Heights, CA (US);
Bruce LaVigne, Roseville, CA (US);
Lewis Stephen Kootstra, Roseville, CA (US);
Mark Gooch, Citrus Heights, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for performing an input processing function on a data packet. The system has an input port to which a first processor is coupled, which determines an attribute of the data packet, and a memory coupled to the first processor having a number of queues. The data packet is assigned to one of the queues based upon the attribute determined, which may be an indicator of a priority characterizing said data packet. Input processing is thus performed in a fixed amount of time, deferring variable latency operations until after the input memory.