US 6,285,686 B1 · Using page registers for efficient communication

Abstract

The inventive mechanism reduces the bandwidth required to transmit an information packet. The inventive mechanism uses page registers that store the bit patterns that are likely to repeat. The information includes a reference to the stored pattern in place of the pattern. Both the receiving node and the sending node store the pattern. A sender would review its page registers to determine if the bit pattern which it is about to send is already present. If it exists, it sends the page register number instead of the bit pattern. The resultant reduction in packet length increases the usable bandwidth. If the entry does not exist in the page registers, and the bit pattern is likely to repeat in the fixed bit positions, the sender may store the bits in a particular page register and send the packet with all the bits, and include a format that tells the receiver to store the repeated bits in the same page register number where the sender stored the bits. Subsequent transactions with the same bit patterns will benefit from the page register usage.

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Dependent claims

A sending node that sends an information packet to a receiving node, the sending node comprising:

means for dynamically deciding whether at least one bit pattern in the information packet is to repeat in a subsequent information packet;
means for storing the one bit pattern if the means for dynamically deciding has determined that the one bit pattern is to repeat;
and
means for referencing a location of the stored one bit pattern in the information packet in place of the one bit pattern.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Using page registers for efficient communication

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Using page registers for efficient communication

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Abstract

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