Owner Microsoft Corporation

Inventors Reus, Edward F.; Thiruvillamalai, Varadarajan S.; Ma, Lie Charles; Hou, Jianbo; Hennessey, David C.; Raman, Vidyasankar; Dehghan, David B.; Soy, Nirmal R.; Mohammed, Mazhar N.; He, Xiang; Roberts, Jason J.; Sriram, Thottam R.; Shepard, Marc

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2005200345

Priority 10799351 12.03.04 US

Filing date 28 January 2005

Wipo publication date 29 September 2005

Acceptance publication date 29 April 2010

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G06F 13/00 (2006.01) Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units

G06F 15/00 (2006.01) Digital computers in general

G06F 15/16 (2006.01) Digital computers in general - Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a programme unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programmes

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H04L 12/00 (2006.01) Data switching networks

H04L 12/16 (2006.01) Data switching networks - Arrangements for providing special services to substations

H04L 29/08 (2006.01) Arrangements, apparatus, circuits or systems, not covered by a single one of groups - Transmission control procedure, e.g. data link level control procedure