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US 2004/0062253 A1Published application
Deterministic bandwidth throttling to facilitate operation of a control unit
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorSreenath Kurupati
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Abstract
According to some embodiments, spare processing cycles are inserted into a stream of information packets to facilitate operation of a control unit.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- an input port to receive a stream of information packets;
- an output port to transmit a stream of information packets;
- and
- a throttling unit to insert a spare processing cycle in the transmitted stream of information packets.
1 more element
A network device, comprising:
- an arbitration unit to receive information packets from a number of media access control modules;
- and
- a throttling unit to receive a stream of information packets from the arbitration unit and to transmit a stream of information packets to a processing pipeline, wherein the throttling unit is adapted to facilitate operation of a control unit.
A method, comprising:
- receiving a stream of information packets;
- and
- inserting spare processing cycles into the stream of information packets to create a transmitted stream of information packets.
A medium storing instructions adapted to be executed by a processor to perform a method, said method comprising:
- receiving a stream of information packets;
- and
- inserting spare processing cycles into the stream of information packets to create a transmitted stream of information packets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.