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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2004
Andrei Radulescu, Eindhoven, NL;
Johannus Theodorus Matheus Hubertus Dielissen, Eindhoven, NL;
Andrei Radulescu, Eindhoven, NL;
Johannus Theodorus Matheus Hubertus Dielissen, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A two-way network interface is provided for both sending transmission messages and receiving reception messages between a pair of processors through a network. The network interface uses transmission messages to transmit both data and information representing respective amounts of unreported buffer space R for receiving data items from reception messages in a buffer storage circuit. The network interface holds up transmission until a number A of data items, that a particular one of the data processing circuits has made available for transmission in the message and for which buffer space is available across the network, exceeds a threshold. However the threshold is lowered, or the transmission message is transmitted before the threshold is exceeded in response to an increase in the amount R of unreported available buffer space in the buffer storage circuit for the particular one of the processing circuits.