Patent ID: 8289966

Claim:
A system comprising: at least one line port for receiving units of information from a source; a receiver circuit coupled to the at least one line port and comprising a plurality of receiver port blocks, each receiver port block configured to: extract a context from a received unit of information, the context representing information associated with the received unit of information for processing at a computing resource, extract a payload from the received unit of information, the payload representing information associated with the received unit of information not subject to processing at the computing resource, the payload comprising at least a first segment and a second segment, send the extracted context to the computing resource for processing, store the first segment of the extracted payload in a memory device, and store the second segment of the extracted payload in another memory device; and a transmitter circuit coupled to the computing resource and the memory device, the transmitter circuit comprising a plurality of transmitter port blocks, each transmitter port block paired with a fixed corresponding receiver port block and configured to: receive, from the computing resource, a processed context corresponding to the context extracted by the paired receiver port block, receive the first segment of the payload stored by the paired receiver port block from the memory device, receive the second segment of the payload stored by the paired receiver port block from the other memory device, generate a processed unit of information by combining the processed context, the first segment of the received payload and the second segment of the received payload, and send the processed unit of information to a destination.