Appeal No. 96-1259
Application 08/201,185
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A data processing system comprising:
a bus having a plurality of signal conductors for
transmitting information between physically separated
locations;
a plurality of modules coupled to said bus, each said
module comprising means for transmitting and receiving
information specifying a transaction to be carried out by
another module or by said module, respectively, each said
module further comprising a queue for storing information
specifying said transaction received by said module for
processing by said module;
a bus controller, separate from said modules for
generating a signal on said bus indicative of the types of
said transactions that can be sent on said bus by said
modules;
means, separate from said modules, for determining that a
queue in one of said modules has less than a predetermined
amount of free space and for causing said bus controller to
limit transactions that can be sent on said bus so as to
prevent transactions requiring space in said queue from being
issued.
Representative dependent claim 4 is reproduced below:
4. The data processing system of Claim 1 further
comprising a main memory, said main memory including a queue
for storing instructions requiring responses by said main
memory, and wherein said determining means further comprises:
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