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Use of a circular buffer to assure in-order delivery of packets

  • US 20030026277A1
  • Filed: 07/03/2002
  • Published: 02/06/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of placing an incoming packet into a circular buffer based on a sequence number for the incoming packet, the method comprising:

  • Calculating a write pointer offset based on the sequence number of the incoming packet and a sequence number of the packet currently associated with a buffer tail pointer for the circular buffer.

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