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US 2003/0115391 A1Published application
Enhanced general input/output architecture and related methods for establishing virtual channels therein
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsJasmin Ajanovic, David Harriman
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Abstract
A point-to-point interconnection and communication architecture, protocol and related methods is presented.
Claims47
A method comprising:
- receiving information for transmission to an external agent through a general input/output bus;
- and
- dynamically allocating a subset of a total bandwidth available over the general input/output bus as a virtual channel to enable transmission of the information to the communicatively coupled component.
A method according to claim 11, wherein independent management of virtual channel state comprises:
- independently managing flow control for each of one or more established virtual channels.
A method comprising:
- establishing a virtual channel dedicated to transmission of information between two agents through zero or more components, wherein the virtual channel is established and managed on a per-link basis between individual components;
- and
- independently managing a state of such virtual channel with respect to any of a number of additional virtual channels established within a total bandwidth of a general input/output bus coupling such components.
A computing device comprising:
- a general input/output bus;
- and
- two or more components, each communicatively coupled with the general input/output, wherein one or more of the components includes an enhanced general input/output interface to establish virtual channel(s) which dynamically share physical resources of the general input/output bus to enable communication of information between the two or more components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.