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HARDWARE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING NETWORK PROTOCOL PACKET

  • US 20080130642A1
  • Filed: 12/03/2007
  • Published: 06/05/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A hardware device for transmitting a network protocol packet, comprising:

  • a socket resource control and transmission control protocol (TCP) connection/release command storing means for storing socket resource control commands, and TCP connection/release commands from a host processor;

    a message transmission command storing means for storing message transmission commands based on network protocol corresponding to each socket;

    a socket information and packet transmission information storing means for storing socket information and packet transmission information; and

    a transmission-only processor for checking necessary transmission resources by interpreting message transmission commands stored in the message transmission command storing means, processing a message to be transmitted in a form of a network packet, reading data to be transmitted, creating a header, and storing socket information and packet transmission information in the socket information and packet transmission information storing means.

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