In a distributed switch fabric network (300) having a first node (302) having a first node transceiver port (305) and a second node (304) having a second node transceiver port (340), link level flow control (370) operating between the first node transceiver port and the second node transceiver port to...http://www.google.de/patents/US7295519?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7295519 - Method of quality of service based flow control within a distributed switch fabric network