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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2009
Applicants:
Chih-fan Hsin, Portland, OR (US);
Jr-shian Tsai, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tsung-yuan C. Tai, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Chih-Fan Hsin, Portland, OR (US);
Jr-Shian Tsai, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In general, in one aspect, a method includes determining a repeated, periodic DMA (Direct Memory Access) coalescing interval based, at least in part, on a power sleep state of a host platform. The method also includes buffering data received at the device in a FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queue during the interval and DMA-ing the data enqueued in the FIFO to a memory external to the device after expiration of the repeated, periodic DMA coalescing interval.