Patent ID: 9736241
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a first device coupled to a second device, a first Fibre Channel frame, wherein the first Fibre Channel frame has a priority indicated by the second device; and in response to receiving by the first device the first Fibre Channel frame, responding, by first device to the second device, with a second Fibre Channel frame that has an identical priority to the priority indicated by the second device, wherein the second device receives the second Fibre Channel frame with the identical priority as the priority indicated by the second device in the first Fibre Channel frame, wherein the first Fibre Channel frame and the second Fibre Channel frame are included in a same exchange, wherein an exchange is comprised of a plurality of sequences, and wherein each sequence is comprised of one or more frames.