Efficient splitting and mixing of streaming-data frames for processing through multiple processing modules
US7007096B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 12, 1999 |
| Grant date | Feb 28, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 12, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F15/8053
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Streaming data is processed through one or more pipes of connected modules including mixers and/or splitters. The data is carried in composite physically allocated frames having virtual subframes associated with different ones of the splitters, mixers, and other transform modules. Nesting trees and pipe control tables represent the structure of the pipes. A frame allocator is assigned to a particular module in a pipe. Rather than issuing a control transaction to all modules when any one of them completes an operation upon its source data, a control manager requests a module to begin its operation only when all of its input subframes have become available. Frame control tables record when any module has completed an operation, and a pipe control table lists which modules provide data to which other modules.
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