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

Claim 13:
14. A method, comprising:
obtaining, at a message receiver in a System On Chip (SOC), a synchronization trigger associated with synchronizing credit;
in response to receiving the synchronization trigger, sending, from the message receiver to a message sender in the SOC, a value for a local credit in the message sender; and
updating, at the message sender, the local credit with the value for the credit that is received from the message receiver, wherein a requirement to send a message from the message sender to the message receiver is that the local credit has a non-zero value, wherein:
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.