Appeal No. 2006-3044 Page 2
Application No. 10/285,939
1. A southbridge device comprising:
• a transmit engine adapted to receive non-posted read requests from at
least one requestor and transmit upstream commands based on said
non-posted read requests, each of said upstream commands being
uniquely identified by a command tag;
• a receive engine adapted to receive response data in reply to
commands previously transmitted by said transmit engine, and
transmit responses to said at least one requestor based on said
response data; and
• a response reordering mechanism adapted to control said receive
engine to transmit said responses in correct order, said response
reordering mechanism comprising a buffer unit for storing received
response data, said buffer unit having a plurality of buffer elements
each being uniquely assigned to one of said command tags.
THE REFERENCES
The examiner relies upon the following references:
Harriman et al. (Harriman) 6,112,265 Aug. 29, 2000
• AAPA - Appellants’ Admitted Prior Art.
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