Patent ID: 9479275
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: H04J,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for communicating between devices coupled to a bus, wherein the method comprises: using a unified frame format for data transmitted in a bitstream mode of communication, the unified frame format comprising two or more frame channels, each of the frame channels given an assigned time slot in the unified frame format; and sending bits between at least two of the devices coupled to the bus by sending one bit from a first of the frame channels at the time slot assigned to the first of the frame channels, then sending one bit from a next of the frame channels at the time slot assigned to the next of the frame channels, and so on until one bit from each of the frame channels has been sent, and then resuming sending from the first of the frame channels, wherein one of the frame channels is used as a control channel carrying individual control bits from control data and one or more of the other frame channels are used as virtual frame channels carrying individual data bits taken from digital word data, wherein the number of frame channels define a width for the unified frame format with each of the frame channels being one bit wide and each of the frame channels has a number of bits defining a length for the unified frame format.