Patents Assigned to Compaq Computer Company
  • Transaction state broadcast method using a two-stage multicast in a multiple processor cluster
    Patent number: 6247059
    Abstract: In a multiple processing system comprising multiple communicatively interconnected nodes, each node having one or more processor units, multicast messages sent by a sender node will contain information that allows intended receiver nodes to check and determine the possibility that earlier-sent multicast messages from the sender node were not received by the receiver node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Compaq Computer Company
    Inventors: Charles S. Johnson, Muhammad Shafiq