System and method for packet transmission from fragmented buffer

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7733878
APP PUB NO 20040008713A1
SERIAL NO

10614109

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The present invention is directed to methods and systems for implementing a DMA scheduling mechanism and a DMA system for transmission from fragmented buffers. According to an aspect of the present invention, a processor controls several devices via a polled interface to interleave DMA data transfers on different Input/Output (I/O) ports in an efficient manner. According to another aspect of the present invention, a system for handling transmission of network packets which are assembled from multiple memory buffers with different octet alignments is provided. The hardware/software combination allows efficient joining of packet fragments with differing octet alignments when the underlying memory system is word based, and further allows insertion of other data fields generated by a processor.

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SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED1109 MCKAY DRIVE SAN JOSE CA 95131

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Holland, Chris St. Ives, GB 6 65
Knight, Brian Cambridge, GB 15 99
Milway, David Cambridge, GB 4 31

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