Patent Document ID: 9952991
Application ID: 14690339
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: fetching, by a fetching module, a first set of descriptors from a memory device and writing, by the fetching module, the first set of descriptors to a buffer; retrieving the first set of descriptors from the buffer and processing the first set of descriptors to permit a Direct Memory Access (DMA) operation; checking, by the fetching module, if space is available in the buffer; and if space is available in the buffer, fetching, by the fetching module, a second set of descriptors from the memory device and writing, by the fetching module, the second set of descriptors to the buffer during or after the processing of the first set of descriptors; wherein the first set of descriptors are fetched from the memory device until an end-of-the-link information is detected in the first set.