A method and apparatus for handling outgoing communication requests in an information handling system in which outgoing communication packets are accumulated into a block that is written to an input/output (I/O) device. For each I/O device there is generated a blocking factor representing a predetermined...http://www.google.de/patents/US6098122?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6098122 - Method and apparatus for adaptively blocking outgoing communication requests and adjusting the blocking factor according to the volume of requests being received in an information handling system
