A data structure to provide high performance in the transmit portion of an ethernet controller. The data structure includes the data to be transmitted, the STATUS information of the data to be transmitted, and the DESCRIPTOR information of the data to be transmitted. The data is organized in 8-bit bytes...http://www.google.de/patents/US5878028?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5878028 - Data structure to support multiple transmit packets for high performance
