Patent ID: 8031730

Claim:
A method of transmitting a sequence of messages in a point-to-point interconnection network comprising message initiating agents, message destination agents and message transmission agents, wherein an indivisible sequence of messages generated by an initiating agent and destined for a destination agent starts with a locking message comprising an address identifying the destination agent, and an operation code containing information indicating that the sequence is indivisible, wherein, during a transmission of an indivisible sequence of messages from an initiating agent to a destination agent, an output of a message transmission agent is locked onto an input of the message transmission agent, the other inputs of said transmission agent being able to transmit messages to other outputs of the said message transmission agent, and wherein said indivisible sequence of messages is terminated by an unlocking message comprising the address identifying the destination agent and the operation code interpreted as an unlocking code for ending the locking of the output of the message transmission agent onto the input of the message transmission agent.