Patent ID: 6898647
Filing Date: 2005-05-24
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for processing bytes received from a data stream, comprising: a plurality of parallel byte processing engines for receiving a first plurality of bytes from a data channel during a first cycle and for generating byte status data for each of said first plurality of bytes; and an input formatter, coupled to said plurality of parallel byte processing engines, for receiving said byte status data from said plurality of parallel byte, processing engines, wherein if one of said byte status data received from one of said plurality of byte processing engines indicates a flag byte, at least one of said first plurality of bytes processed by a neighboring byte processing engine from among said plurality of parallel byte processing engines is designated as a delineation byte wherein said byte status data includes a write enable status bit for respective ones of said first plurality of bytes identified as valid data, and wherein said input formatter further generates a byte status code for each of said first plurality of bytes identified as valid data, wherein said byte status code identifies at least one of said first plurality of bytes as a delineation byte.