Patent ID: 7836220

Claim:
A system comprising: at least a first node and a second node coupled to a network, wherein the second node comprises a local memory and a direct memory access (DMA) controller coupled to the local memory; wherein the first node is configured to transmit at least a first packet to the second node to access data in the local memory and at least one other packet that is not coded to access data in the local memory; and wherein the second node is configured to capture the first packet from a data link layer of a protocol stack, and wherein the second node is configured to remove the first packet from the protocol stack at the data link layer and to provide the first packet to the DMA controller from the data link layer, and wherein the DMA controller is configured to perform one or more transfers with the local memory to access the data specified by the first packet responsive to the first packet received from the data link layer, and wherein the second node is configured to process the other packet to a top of the protocol stack.