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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2004
Ronald Ho, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan K. Gainsley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert J. Drost, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ronald Ho, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan K. Gainsley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert J. Drost, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that asynchronously controls the sending of data items from a sender to a receiver. The system includes a data path between the sender and the receiver, a first control path between the sender and the receiver, and a second control path between the sender and the receiver. The first control path and the second control path alternately control the asynchronous transmission of consecutive data items on the data path between the sender and the receiver.