Ian S Crayford

6487212, Nov 26, 2002

Dec 18, 1997

08/993147

Bahadir Erimli - Mountain View CA
Ian Crayford - San Jose CA
Chandan Egbert - San Jose CA

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

H04L 1228

370413, 370230, 370429

A method and arrangement for queuing data in a prioritized manner has a queue with a single queue write side in which data entries are input to the queue. The queue also has a plurality of queue read sides, with each read side having a different priority level. An entry exiting from the queue write side is examined to determine the priority level of the entry, and then placed into the queue read side with the matching priority level as the entry. The queue read sides form the output of the queue, and are polled and emptied so that the higher priority queues are emptied completely before emptying lower priority queues.

6556589, Apr 29, 2003

Jan 4, 1999

09/225219

Stephen McRobert - Sunnyvale CA
Ian S. Crayford - San Jose CA

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

H04J 316

370501, 370465

A novel method of operating repeaters or other hub devices in a local area network, such as one conforming to Ethernet protocol, in which there are a plurality of repeater interfaces of respectively different data rates for communicating with a link partner on a network medium. The methodology comprises determining the data rate of operation of the link partner, and based on that data rate, automatically steering data between the network medium and a selected one of the repeaters. In a preferred embodiment, a network transceiver comprises one or more physical layer devices (PHY), and a plurality of shared data busses corresponding, respectively, to the speeds of operation of the repeaters, for interconnecting the repeaters and one or more of the physical layer devices. A multiplexer interconnects each of the one or more physical layer devices to a selected one of the plurality of busses, and an auto-negotiation unit controls the multiplexer to interconnect the physical layer devices to corresponding busses selected depending on the operating speed of the link partner.

6704296, Mar 9, 2004

Sep 16, 1996

08/743049

Ian Crayford - San Jose CA
Ramesh Sivakolundu - Fremont CA
Bing Cheng - Mountain View CA

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Austin TX

H04L 1256

370279, 370492, 370501

A media independent interface for interconnecting an integrated repeater front-end with one or more integrated interface devices, each having several physical layer devices for operation in conformance with IEEE 802. 3u. The media independent interface, in a repeater implementation, shares transmit and receive data channels, and provides for dedicated control signals, thereby multiplexing shared channels across all of the physical layer devices in the integrated interface device.

6885657, Apr 26, 2005

Nov 30, 1999

09/452043

Ted F. Rabenko - Duluth GA, US
Ian Crayford - San Jose CA, US

Broadcom Corporation - Irvine CA

H04L012/66

370352, 37039542, 370429, 370463

The present invention includes a network telephone having a microphone coupled to provide voice data to a network, a speaker coupled to facilitate listening to voice data from the network, a dialing device coupled to facilitate routing of voice data upon the network, a first port configured to facilitate communication with a first network device, a second port configured to facilitate communication with a second network device and a prioritization circuit coupled to apply prioritization to voice data provided by the microphone.

6970419, Nov 29, 2005

Aug 7, 1998

09/131141

Mohan V. Kalkunte - Sunnyvale CA, US
James L. Mangin - San Ramon CA, US
Ian Crayford - San Jose CA, US

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

H04J001/16

370230, 370235, 370412

A method for preserving frame order of a plurality of frames transmitted over a plurality of communication links is presented. In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, the method includes receiving up to a plurality of indications denoting commencement of frame transmission on a corresponding plurality of communication links, and assigning a pointer value to a record in a buffer for each of said frames based, at least in part, on a relative order in which the indications are received.

6970420, Nov 29, 2005

Mar 17, 1999

09/271008

Mohan V. Kalkunte - Sunnyvale CA, US
James L. Mangin - San Ramon CA, US
Ian Crayford - San Jose CA, US

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

H04J001/16

370230, 370235, 370412

A method for preserving frame order across an aggregated link comprising receiving up to a plurality of indications denoting commencement of frame transmission on each of a plurality of virtual links each associated with a particular quality of service level comprising the aggregated link, and assigning a plurality of pointer values to a corresponding plurality of records in an appropriate ones of a plurality of pointer value buffers associated with the corresponding plurality of virtual links based, at least in part, on the relative order in which data frames are transmitted on each of the links.

6973031, Dec 6, 2005

Mar 17, 1999

09/271011

Mohan V. Kalkunte - Sunnyvale CA, US
James L. Mangin - San Ramon CA, US
Ian Crayford - San Jose CA, US

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

H04J001/16

370230, 370235, 370412

A method for preserving frame order across an aggregated link comprised of a plurality of virtual links each supporting a particular transmission rate is presented comprising receiving up to a plurality of indications denoting commencement of frame transmission on each of the virtual links, and assigning a plurality of pointer values to a corresponding plurality of records in a pointer value buffer associated with each of the virtual links based, at least in part, on the relative order in which data frames are transmitted on each of the virtual links.

6977892, Dec 20, 2005

Dec 17, 1998

09/213096

Mohan V. Kalkunte - Sunnyvale CA, US
James L. Mangin - San Ramon CA, US
Ian Crayford - San Jose CA, US

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

H04J001/16

370230, 370235, 370412

A method for preserving flow order is presented, the method comprising receiving up to a plurality of indications denoting commencement of frame transmission on a corresponding plurality of communication links, identifying that one or more of the received frames denote the start of a flow condition, and dedicating a receive buffer from a plurality of receive buffers to receive all frames associated with the identified flow condition.