Patent ID: 9571397
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of transmitting data from a source to at least one sink over a synchronous TDMA wired bus, the method comprising: defining a channel, by identifying the source and the at least one sink; selecting a transport profile from a plurality of predefined transport profiles, wherein the selected transport profile indicates a flow control requirement for the data; transmitting, from the source, to the at least one sink, a datum over the synchronous TDMA wired bus in a subframe consisting of a single data payload consisting of one or more data time slots, and a tag field consisting of one or more flow control time slots; and when indicated by the selected transport profile, transmitting, from the source, to the at least one sink, flow control information over the synchronous TDMA wired bus in at least one flow control time slot in the tag field of the subframe, the flow control information being uniquely associated with only the datum transmitted during the same subframe.