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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:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2008
Applicants:
Bruce L. Beukema, Hayfield, MN (US);
Jamie R. Kuesel, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert A. Shearer, Rochester, MN (US);
Bruce M. Walk, Rochester, MN (US);
Inventors:
Bruce L. Beukema, Hayfield, MN (US);
Jamie R. Kuesel, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert A. Shearer, Rochester, MN (US);
Bruce M. Walk, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/14 (2006.01); H04J 3/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems for dynamically adjusting credits used to distribute available bus bandwidth among multiple virtual channels, based on the workload of each virtual channel, are provided. Accordingly, for some embodiments, virtual channels with higher workloads relative to other virtual channels may receive a higher allocation of bus bandwidth (more credits).