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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2014
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Narasimha Golla, San Jose, CA (US);
John Terry, San Jose, CA (US);
Kung-Ling Ko, Union City, CA (US);
Abhay Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Packets or data units and their related credit returns each include an assigned phase value. When a credit test is desired, the phase value of outgoing data units is changed, for example from 0 to 1, and a new counter is set to a value of the outstanding credits having the original phase value. With each original phase credit received, the counter value is decremented. When a credit having the new phase value is received, the counter value indicates the amount of any credit error and appropriate corrections may be made.