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OwnerRichard E. White, Dale R. Buchholz +5inventors
InventorsRichard E. White, Dale R. Buchholz, Thomas A. Freeburg, Hungkun J. Chang, Michael P. Nolan, John M. Kaczmarczyk, Lisa B. Johanson
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A hierarchical addressing technique is employed in a packet communications system to enhance flexibility in storing and referencing packet information. This method permits packet message data and certain packet control data to be stored in memory locations without having to be duplicated at a different memory location prior to transmission of the packet. This method is preferably employed in a ring configuration in which a series of packets have addressing mechanisms which points sequentially to each other to form a ring of packets received or to be transmitted.
A method of processing packets for storage in a communications system memory device, each packet comprising a header having a circuit identification (ID) field, a packet length field, an address type field, an address length field, an address field, a frame-check sequence field and an information field, the method comprising the steps of:
In an information system in which data is communicated using packets, each packet having a control data portion and a message data portion, a packet communication method comprising the steps of:
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