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Method and apparatus for data alignment

US5835496A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 30, 1996
Grant dateNov 10, 1998
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Expiry dateApr 30, 2016

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04J3/0602
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for the synchronization of an F.sub.-- port receiver on a Fibre Channel switch with an external N.sub.-- port to ensure the reception of a stream of transmission characters including four byte ordered sets having a comma character positioned as the left most byte in the ordered set in accordance with the Fibre Channel standard.

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