Patent ID: 9594718
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04B,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for communicating, via a memory-mapped communication path, between a host processor and a cellular-communication modem, the method comprising: providing logical channels over the memory-mapped communication path; transporting data organized according to one or more cellular communication protocols over at least one of the logical channels; acknowledging when data transfer occurs between the host processor and the cellular-communication modem; issuing commands between the host processor and the cellular-communication modem; communicating and managing a power state via one or more of the logical channels; allocating direct memory access data buffers in a memory of the host processor; storing information for the cellular-communication modem in the direct memory access data buffers; storing a listing of locations of the direct memory access buffers; communicating an address of the listing to the cellular-communication modem; pulling the information from the direct memory access data buffers to the cellular-communication modem; and executing the information at the cellular-communication modem.