Patent ID: 7916750
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A device, comprising a non-transitory medium including a processor, which executes logic, the logic to: determine whether a received current transaction layer packet (TLP) has a compressed header; decompress the header in response to the received current TLP having a compressed header; set a chained TLP bit in the compressed TLP header if a next TLP is designated to be chained to the current TLP; insert a K-character specifying header compression at the beginning of a first TLP in a group of TLPs to be chained together; set the chained TLP bit in every TLP header in the group except the last; insert link cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information in the last TLP in the group; and insert a K-character specifying the end of a TLP at the end of the last TLP in the group to be chained.