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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:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Scott Douglas Clark, Rochester, MN (US);
Dorothy Marie Thelen, Rochester, MN (US);
Scott Douglas Clark, Rochester, MN (US);
Dorothy Marie Thelen, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing bandwidth control in a communication link. A set link configuration for the communications link establishes a number of clock cycles required to transmit a data envelope. A control function aligns a start of a data packet on a fixed cycle boundary for data envelope transmissions. The control function aligns the start of a data packet in the same byte of the 16 byte field. The control function is implemented with a memory management input/output (MMIO) register and a counter, and allows a transmitting side of the communications link to control the pacing of data packet transmission or bandwidth by aligning all data packets on fixed-cycle boundaries.
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