Patent ID: 7200696
Filing Date: 2007-04-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of determining when a frame of information comprised of one or more data buffers of information being transmitted in a network processor has completed transmission by a transmission system therein, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of buffer control blocks, each having space for control information to link one buffer to another for transmitting information in each data buffer, each of said buffer control blocks having a last bit flag bit having a first position wherein an additional data buffer is to be chained to a previous data buffer and a second position wherein no additional data buffer is to be chained to a previous buffer wherein each buffer control block includes the next buffer address when the last big flag bit is in either the first position or the second position; and supplying the position of said last bit flag bit in each buffer control block to the transmission system of said network processor.