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OwnerYeshik Shin, David D. Lee +2inventors
InventorsYeshik Shin, David D. Lee, Deog-Kyoon Jeong, Shing Kong
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A serial communications architecture for communicating between hosts and data store devices. The Storage Link architecture is specially adapted to support communications between multiple hosts and storage devices via a switch network, such as a storage area network. The Storage Link architecture specifies various communications techniques that can be combined to reduce the overall cost and increase the overall performance of communications. The Storage Link architecture may provide packet ordering based on packet type, dynamic segmentation of packets, asymmetric packet ordering, packet nesting, variable-sized packet headers, and use of out-of-band symbols to transmit control information as described below in more detail. The Storage Link architecture may also specify encoding techniques to optimize transitions and to ensure DC-balance.
A method for transmitting packets through a network between a first communications node and a second communications node, the method comprising:
The method of claim I wherein the network includes multiple paths from the first communications node to the second communications node.
The method of claim I wherein the network includes multiple paths from the second communications node to the first communications node and at least two packets of the second sequence are transmitted along different paths.
The method of claim I wherein the second communications node does not have a capability to reorder a sequence of packets.
A method for transmitting packets from a first communications device to a second communications device, the method comprising:
A device for transmitting packets of a transaction between a host to a data store device comprising:
A device for transmitting packets of transactions, the packets of a transaction having a sequential order, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.