Patent ID: 8310934
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A device for controlling information channel flow, comprising: a receiving unit, configured to receive information from multiple information channels of a data sending device, wherein the multiple information channels are divided into at least two channel groups, and each of the at least two channel groups comprises a group identification; a generation unit, configured to generate data streams for each of the at least two channel groups respectively, wherein each of the data streams carries a corresponding set of control words to indicate whether flow adjustment is needed for information channels in a corresponding channel group, and a group identification of the corresponding channel group; and a transmitting unit, configured to transmit the data streams to the data sending device to perform flow control, wherein data streams that carry corresponding sets of control words indicating that flow adjustment for at least one information channel is needed are transmitted before data streams that carry corresponding sets of control words indicating no flow adjustment is needed.