Patent ID: 7944931
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for writing data in a memory comprising the acts of: defining memory increments of a memory as pairs of buffers from two storage units, each partitioned into buffers with each one of the pairs being located in different ones of the two storage units and offset from another one of the pairs; partitioning a data packet received at a network device port into a cell having a header portion and a payload portion, the header comprising control information indicating one of configurations comprising: determining the one configuration from the header control information; and selecting memory increments from the defined memory increments for writing the data within a memory based upon the one configuration so determined by writing the cell data in a second of the memory increment buffer pairs different from a first of the memory increment buffer pairs previously used to record data of a previously received packet if the determined one configuration is the payload carries data only for the beginning of the new packet.