Patent 7770088 was granted and assigned to Intel on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Logic may issue a request to transmit a network protocol unit and instruct a network component to determine an integrity validation value over one or more portion of the network protocol unit. The logic may reserve one or more location in memory to store the determined integrity validation value. For example, the integrity validation value may be a cyclical redundancy checking (CRC) value.