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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2007
Sun-wook Kim, Daejon, KR;
Dae-won Kim, Daegu, KR;
Youngwoo Kim, Daejon, KR;
Kyoung Park, Daejon, KR;
Seong-woon Kim, Daejon, KR;
Sun-Wook Kim, Daejon, KR;
Dae-Won Kim, Daegu, KR;
Youngwoo Kim, Daejon, KR;
Kyoung Park, Daejon, KR;
Seong-Woon Kim, Daejon, KR;
Abstract
Provided are a hardware device and method for transmitting a network protocol packet in a TOE for network protocol acceleration. The hardware device includes: a socket resource control and TCP connection/release command unit for storing socket resource control commands, and TCP connection/release commands from a host processor; a message transmission command storing unit for storing message transmission commands based on network protocol corresponding to each socket; a socket information and packet transmission information storing unit for storing socket information and packet transmission information; and a transmission-only processor for checking necessary transmission resources by interpreting message transmission commands stored in the message transmission command storing unit, processing a message to be transmitted in a form of a network packet, reading data to be transmitted, creating a header, and storing socket information and packet transmission information in the socket information and packet transmission information storing unit.