Patent ID: 7647599

Claim:
An Interprocessor Communication (IPC) network, comprising: an IPC server; one or more IPC clients coupled to the IPC server; and the IPC server includes a port dedication table; wherein the IPC server includes one or more ports and the port dedication table keeps track of which of the one or more ports have been dedicated to create a dedicated path and each of the one or more IPC clients has a port dedication table; wherein header information does not need to be included when transferring packets over the dedicated path; wherein the one or more IPC clients each includes a network routing table that shows what addresses have been assigned to each of the IPC server's ports; wherein the IPC server or one of the one or more IPC clients upon receiving a port dedication message from one of the one or more IPC clients that is a peer IPC node informs an IPC client sending the port dedication message if it has a port available for dedication; wherein the IPC server or one of the one or more IPC clients that is a peer IPC node informs the IPC client sending the port dedication message information about the port(s) it has available: wherein each of the port dedication tables found in each of the one or more IPC clients includes information about the IPC client's own port(s).