Patent ID: 11909643
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. An apparatus, comprising:
processing circuitry;
a memory device to maintain a first tracker for all requests and a second tracker for a privileged group of requests, wherein a tracker is a buffer capable of tracking in-progress requests accepted by the tracker;
a privilege logic block to select a first group from a set of groups as the privileged group;
a communication logic block to receive a request from a requesting device;
an acceptance logic block to:
determine that a request from a remote apparatus cannot be accepted into the first tracker;
determine whether the request belongs to the first group based on a header field of the request; and
in response to the request belonging to the first group, select the request for accepting into the second tracker and performing a set of operations indicated in the request; and

wherein the privilege logic block is further to:
determine that a respective request belonging to the first group has been accepted; and
select a second group from the set of groups as the privileged group.