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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2012
Applicant:
Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Inventors:
Ariel Hendel, Cupertino, CA (US);
K. R. Kishore, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/805 (2013.01); H04L 12/835 (2013.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/36 (2013.01); H04L 47/30 (2013.01); H04L 47/39 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for credit-based link level flow control. In one embodiment, a byte-based flow control mechanism is based on a sender effectively maintaining a buffer state at the receiver. In maintaining a buffer state at the receiver, the sender is provided with information regarding byte expansion at the receiver. This byte-expansion information can be used by the sender to identify the amount of additional storage needed by the receiver when storing a packet transmitted by the sender in the receiver's packet buffer.