US 12,132,809 B2
Method and system for high speed data links
Mark Ronald Sikkink, Chippewa Falls, WI (US); Randal Steven Passint, Chippewa Falls, WI (US); Joseph Martin Placek, Chippewa Falls, WI (US); and Russell Leonard Nicol, Eau Claire, WI (US)
Assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US)
Filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/303,764.
Application 17/303,764 is a continuation of application No. 14/742,007, filed on Jun. 17, 2015, granted, now 11,032,397.
Prior Publication US 2022/0030091 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 69/08 (2022.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 69/00 (2022.01); H04L 69/18 (2022.01); H04L 69/22 (2022.01); H04L 69/324 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 69/08 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0041 (2013.01); H04L 1/0061 (2013.01); H04L 1/007 (2013.01); H04L 1/0072 (2013.01); H04L 1/0083 (2013.01); H04L 69/02 (2013.01); H04L 69/18 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04L 69/324 (2013.01); H04L 1/0003 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
7. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
generate a packet comprising a plurality of flits having different formats according to different communication protocols, the packet including a link-level flit having a first format according to a first communications protocol supporting link-level retry and a plurality of end-to-end flits having a second format according to a second communications protocol supporting end-to-end retry, wherein the link-level flit is a header flit identifying the beginning of the contiguous burst of flits, and the packet further comprises:
a second link-level flit having a third format according to a third communications protocol and formatted as a tail flit to identify the end of the contiguous burst; and
transmit the plurality of flits over a communications channel from the transmitter to the receiver in a contiguous burst, the contiguous burst transmitting each of the plurality of flits that define the packet in non-interleaved succession.