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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2012
Applicants:
Brent Aaron Cook, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Michael Moriarty, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Brent Aaron Cook, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Michael Moriarty, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
BreakingPoint Systems, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06136 (2013.01); H04L 69/161 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of offloading data intensive tasks from a processor, comprises, at a processor, preparing a TCP packet comprising a TCP header and a data payload, transmitting the TCP packet to a configurable logic device (CLD); and at the CLD, receiving the TCP packet, generating set of TCP segment packets containing, a copy of the TCP header, an incrementing segment sequence identifier, and a portion of the data payload, and transmitting the set of TCP segment packets on an external network interface.