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Optimized back-to-back enqueue/dequeue via physical queue parallelism

US7336675B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 22, 2003
Grant dateFeb 26, 2008
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Expiry dateJun 4, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L49/90
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus to receive a plurality of packet from an inflow of a single packet flow. In response to receiving the plurality of packets, a plurality of packet pointers is enqueued into multiple physical queues. Each of the plurality of packet pointers designates one of the plurality of packets from the single packet flow. The plurality of packet pointers are dequeued from the multiple physical queues to transmit the plurality of packets along an outflow of the single packet flow.

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