Patent ID: 7657186

Claim:
In an optical transceiver system including system memory and a consistency checker component, the system memory including a plurality of consistency check portions that are to be subjected to consistency checking and plurality of non-consistency check portions that are not to be subjected to consistency checking, wherein the plurality of non-consistency check portions are interleaved between the plurality of consistency check portions, a method for the consistency checker component to check portions of system memory for consistency, the method comprising: during operation of an optical transceiver system, performing: an act of determining that consistency checking is to be performed on one or more consistency check portions of the system memory; an act of the consistency checker component reading at least one of the one or more consistency check portions of the system memory that are to be subjected to consistency checking; and an act of the consistency checker component determining whether or not the data from the at least one of the one or more consistency check portions of system memory is consistent with an expected consistency check value.