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US 2010/0074264 A1Published application
Method and apparatus to facilitate system to system protocol exchange in back to back non-transparent bridges
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsKimberly Davis, Mark Sullivan, James Mitchell, Patrick Themins
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Abstract
A dual host system and method with back to back non-transparent bridges and a proxy packet generating mechanism. The proxy packet generating mechanism enables the hosts to send interrupt generating packets to each other.
Claims20
A data processing system comprising:
- a first host comprising a first non-transparent bridge;
- a second host comprising a second non-transparent bridge, wherein the first and second non-transparent bridges are configured back to back;
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- a proxy packet generating mechanism between the first non-transparent bridge and the second non-transparent bridge.
1 more element
A method of connecting hosts comprising:
- connecting a first non-transparent bridge of a first host with a second non-transparent bridge of a second host with a proxy packet mechanism,
- where the first and second non-transparent bridges have a back to back configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.