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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2004
Applicants:
Lih-chung Kuo, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Moy, San Jose, CA (US);
Carol Spanel, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew D. Walls, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Lih-Chung Kuo, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Moy, San Jose, CA (US);
Carol Spanel, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew D. Walls, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, apparatus and program storage device for managing dataflow through a processing system is disclosed. A buffer monitor maintains and monitors a buffer full threshold to control the write throughput to a data bus.