Patent ID: 11929919
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method, comprising:
arming a reduction engine for a reduction process based on a received frame, wherein the received frame identifies the reduction process;
setting a wait count for the reduction process associated with a number of reduction contributions to be received by the reduction engine;
setting a timer for the reduction process;
sending the frame to one or more output ports toward endpoints associated with the reduction process, thereby allowing additional reduction engines to be armed for the reduction process;
receiving a reduction contribution;
determining whether the reduction engine is available and whether the timer has expired; and
responsive to determining that the reduction engine is not available or that the timer has expired, forwarding the received contribution, without performing a reduction process on the received contribution, to a root node of the reduction process, wherein the received contribution is used by the root node to perform a reduction operation.