Patent ID: 9565251
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of transmitting C.A.N.-type frames over a C.A.N.-type bus, the method comprising: reading data from a first memory device; encapsulating data read from the first memory device, in a plurality of over-head fields to form a plurality of C.A.N.-type frames; appending to each C.A.N.-type frame, a C.A.N. message identifier that corresponds to, and that uniquely identifies, one of N available buffers that are in a remotely-located FLASH memory device programming station, the N available buffers in the remotely-located FLASH memory programming station being sized and arranged to store complete, C.A.N.-type frames, N being a number greater than one, the message identifier corresponding to, and identifying, a particular buffer at the FLASH memory programming station into which a C.A.N.-type frame with a corresponding message identifier is to be stored temporarily by a FLASH programming device that is coupled to a FLASH memory device into which a payload portion of a C.A.N.-type frame is to be transferred by the FLASH programming device, a C.A.N.-type frame comprising a multi-bit, information-bearing payload field, encapsulated in a plurality of over-head fields; transmitting a plurality of C.A.N.-type frames with the appended message identifier over a C.A.N. bus to the FLASH memory programming station, the FLASH memory programming station being configured to have a plurality of buffers, each buffer at the FLASH memory programming station being identified by the message identifier appended to a transmitted C.A.N. frame and each buffer being configured to store a complete C.A.N.-type frame; repeating steps a) and b) until a number of transmitted messages is equal to N.