Patent ID: 11899601
Assignee: BEIJING TENAFE ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 3:
4. A system, comprising:
a message receiver in a System On Chip (SOC), wherein the message receiver:
obtains a synchronization trigger associated with synchronizing credit; and
in response to receiving the synchronization trigger, sends, from the message receiver to a message sender in the SOC, a value for a local credit in the message sender; and

the message sender, wherein:
the message sender updates the local credit with the value for the credit that is received from the message receiver;
a requirement to send a message from the message sender to the message receiver is that the local credit has a non-zero value;
the SOC is associated with a storage controller; and
the storage controller further includes a plurality of channel interface modules, wherein each of the plurality of channel interface modules independently acts as a message receiver.