Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bridging mechanism for peer-to-peer communication
- Patent Title (中): 对等通信桥接机制
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Application No.: US12239743Application Date: 2008-09-27
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Publication No.: US08463881B1Publication Date: 2013-06-11
- Inventor: Paul A. Baker , Michael W. Murphy , Eric Werner Anderson , Colin Whitby-Strevens , David Ferguson , Keith Diefendorff , Ron Hochsprung , William Cornelius
- Applicant: Paul A. Baker , Michael W. Murphy , Eric Werner Anderson , Colin Whitby-Strevens , David Ferguson , Keith Diefendorff , Ron Hochsprung , William Cornelius
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
- Main IPC: G06F15/177
- IPC: G06F15/177

Abstract:
A high-speed optical interface for connecting computers to external I/O devices allows a number of native I/O formats to be encapsulated into PCIe Vendor Defined Messages (“VDMs”) for transfer over a single physical medium, preferably optical, and is thus referred to as the converged I/O (“CIO”) interface. Standard PCIe bridges are modified to support peer-to-peer communications, allowing greater exploitation of the capabilities of PCIe.
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