Cascaded communication of serialized data streams through devices and their resulting operation

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9270397
APP PUB NO 20140112342A1
SERIAL NO

13658960

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In one embodiment, an apparatus cascades groups of serialized data streams through devices, and performs operations based on information communicated therein. A received group of serialized data streams is aligned, but not framed, and forwarded to a next device (e.g., a next stage in a linear or tree cascaded formation of devices). Eliminating the framing and subsequent serialization operations performed on the received group of serialized data streams reduces the latency of communications through the cascaded devices, which can be significant when considered in relation to the high-speed communication rates. The received group of serialized data streams is also framed to create a sequence of data frames for processing (e.g., associative memory lookup operations, controlling multiplexing of received downstream serialized data streams, general or other processing) within the device.

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  • CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Harper, Matthew Salem, US 19 1010
Holmes, Steven Philip Wake Forest, US 1 0
Lipman, Michael E Harvard, US 17 898
Markevitch, James A Palo Alto, US 6 18
Marshall, John W Cary, US 13 250
Shaw, Jeffrey Nelson Stow, US 1 0
Tatar, Mohammed Ismael Kanata, CA 23 508

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