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Method and apparatus for establishing a quality of service model

  • US 8,504,992 B2
  • Filed: 02/16/2010
  • Issued: 08/06/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for satisfying a Quality of Service (QoS) contract with an initiator in an integrated circuit, comprising:

  • receiving a first request from a group of requests from an initiator according to an arrival model that specifies a first deadline for the first request and additional deadlines for further requests in the group, wherein the deadlines according to the arrival model for each request in the group is a time period less than or equal to an ordinal number times an arrival interval, wherein the ordinal number signifies a positional order of that request within the group, wherein the first deadline set for the first request within the group of request is satisfied when the first request arrives in a first time period of less than or equal to the ordinal number of the first request times the arrival interval;

    returning the first request that has been serviced to the initiator according to a service model specifying deadlines in a second period time of less than or equal to a constant term plus the ordinal number times a service interval; and

    deciding whether the deadlines of the arrival model and the service model have been satisfied in order to satisfy the QoS contract.

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