Patent 7583663 was granted and assigned to Juniper Networks on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system includes a queue that stores P data units, each data unit including multiple bytes. The system further includes a control unit that shifts, byte by byte, Q data units from the queue during a first system clock cycle, where Q<P, and sends, during the first system clock cycle, the Q data units to a processing device configured to process a maximum of Q data units per system clock cycle.