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Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010

Filed:

Aug. 09, 2007
Applicants:

Erik R. Swenson, San Jose, CA (US);

Sid Khattar, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Kevin Fatheree, Northridge, CA (US);

Dwayne Hunnicutt, Thousands Oaks, CA (US);

Stephen R. Haddock, La Honda, CA (US);

Inventors:

Erik R. Swenson, San Jose, CA (US);

Sid Khattar, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Kevin Fatheree, Northridge, CA (US);

Dwayne Hunnicutt, Thousands Oaks, CA (US);

Stephen R. Haddock, La Honda, CA (US);

Assignee:

Extreme Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/14 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In a networked system, in which high speed busses interconnect sources and destinations of data, systems for and methods of flow control and extended burst transfers are described. The present invention is directed to a system for selectively varying the number of burst transfers used to transmit a block of data. The present invention is also directed to a method of selectively varying the number of burst transfers needed to transmit a block of data.


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