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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2007
Brian K. Schmidt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James G. Hanko, Redwood City, CA (US);
J. Duane Northcutt, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Brian K. Schmidt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James G. Hanko, Redwood City, CA (US);
J. Duane Northcutt, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Silicon Image, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for bandwidth reservation for data flows in interconnection networks. Some embodiments of an apparatus for transmitting a data stream include a transmitter to transmit a data stream to a recipient apparatus, the data stream including a plurality of data packets. The apparatus further includes a receiver to receive a response from the recipient apparatus regarding data packet arrival status, and a network unit to direct the operation of the transmitter, the network unit to direct the transmitter to maintain the data stream with a constant bandwidth.