| CPC H04L 47/31 (2013.01) [H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); H04L 69/02 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. An apparatus comprising:
a network interface device comprising circuitry to perform offloaded tag matching operation to support both one or more eager transactions and one or more rendezvous transactions using a tag-matching protocol, wherein to perform the offloaded tag matching operation, the circuitry is to:
store at least one received eager message into a buffer prior to sending a clear to send for the at least one received eager message and
write the at least one received eager message to a second buffer after matching a tag for the at least one received eager message with the clear to send.
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