Patent ID: 11874780
Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 27:
28. A method of utilizing a client chain, the method comprising:
transmitting a plurality of requests for access of memory banks of a packet memory to a packet memory arbiter from one or more of a plurality of hierarchical clients of the client chain;
arbitrating between the plurality of requests with the packet memory arbiter by granting one of the requests;
transmitting packet data associated with the granted request from the memory banks of the packet memory to a first hierarchical client of the plurality of hierarchical clients, wherein the first hierarchical client is not the hierarchical client that sent the granted request; and
forwarding the packet data associated with the granted request from the first hierarchical client of the plurality of hierarchical clients to the hierarchical client that sent the granted request.