US Patent 7415549 DMA completion processing mechanism

Patent 7415549 was granted and assigned to Intel on August, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent

Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Intel

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7415549

Patent Inventor Names

William Halleck0

Pak-lung Seto0

Suresh Chemudupati0

Victor Lau0

Ankit Parikh0

Gary Y. Tsao0

Kiran Vemula0

Nai-Chih Chang0

Date of Patent

August 19, 2008

Patent Application Number

11237455

Date Filed

September 27, 2005

Patent Primary Examiner

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Henry Tsai

Patent abstract

According to one embodiment, a storage device is disclosed. The storage device includes a port having one or more lanes and a direct memory access (DMA) Descriptor Manager (DM). The DM generates and tracks completion of descriptors. The DM includes a first completion lookup table to track one or more fields of an input/output (I/O) context received at a first lane.