Patent ID: 8090892

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at an integrated circuit device, a first request identifying a contiguous address space storing first information to be returned to a requesting device, the contiguous address space beginning at a first address; generating by the integrated circuit device a first plurality of spawned requests for information, the first plurality of spawned requests associated with the first request, each spawned request of the first plurality of spawned requests corresponding to a respective portion of the first information, the first plurality of requests including a first spawned request and a second spawned request, the first spawned request corresponding to a first portion of the first information that includes information at the first address, and the second spawned request corresponding to a second portion of the first information, the first portion and the second portion associated with contiguous addresses of the contiguous address space; for each spawned request associated with the first request, allocating a respective record of a table, the record including a first field; asserting an indicator at the first field of a first record associated with the first spawned request to indicate that the first portion of the first information is to be returned to the requesting device prior to any other portion of the first information; and negating an indicator at the first field of the record associated with the second spawned request to indicate that the second portion of the first information is to be returned to the requesting device subsequent to at least one other portion of the first information.