Patent ID: 7761529

Claim:
A method, comprising: transmitting network connection context data through a network connection context data bus between a network adapter memory controller and a network connection context data client of a group of network connection context data clients of a network adapter; and separately transmitting packet data through a packet data bus between said memory controller and a packet data client of a group of packet data clients of said network adapter wherein said network connection context data bus is separate from said packet data bus, wherein said transmitting network connection context data includes reading network connection context data through a unidirectional network connection context data read bus from said memory controller to a client of said group of network connection context data clients; and said transmitting packet data includes reading packet data on a unidirectional packet data read bus from said memory controller to a client of said group of packet data clients, and wherein said transmitting network connection context data includes writing network connection context data through a unidirectional network connection context data write bus from a client of said group of network connection context data clients to said memory controller; and said transmitting packet data includes writing packet data through a unidirectional packet data write bus from a client of said group of packet data clients to said network controller.