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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2003
Jeffrey Douglas Brown, Rochester, MN (US);
Scott Douglas Clark, Rochester, MN (US);
John David Irish, Rochester, MN (US);
Jeffrey Douglas Brown, Rochester, MN (US);
Scott Douglas Clark, Rochester, MN (US);
John David Irish, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for granting guaranteed bandwidth between one or more data transmission priority requesting sources and one or more resources upon request. Data sources that do not request an assigned bandwidth are served on a 'best efforts' basis. The system allows additional bandwidth to priority requesting sources when it is determined that the resource and/or the communication path to the resource is under-utilized. The system further allows the granted bandwidth to be shared by more than one source in a multiprocessor system.