Patent ID: 9430378
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H04J,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a plurality of data frames at a destination node in a communications system; storing payload data from the received plurality of data frames in a memory, the plurality of data frames representing at least one virtually-concatenated data stream; recording a physical write address at which the plurality of received data frames is stored in the memory; recording a virtual write address for the plurality of received data frames to a memory location, the virtual write address including a corresponding multiframe indicator value for the plurality of received data frames and a byte number for a last received byte from the plurality of received data frames; determining a minimum write address by comparing virtual write addresses of all members in a group of associated data frames; and subtracting a threshold value equal to a write-to-read delay in the memory from the minimum write address to determine the virtual read address.