Patent ID: 8081626
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a transmitter operable to transmit a traffic block, the traffic block comprising an amount of communication traffic received on a receive communication link; a transmission controller, operatively coupled to the transmitter, for controlling transmission of the traffic block, the transmission controller being operable to determine whether transmission of the traffic block at an output rate of the transmitter when only a portion of the amount of communication traffic to be included in the traffic block has been received on the receive communication link would be completed before a remaining amount of communication traffic to be included in the traffic block is received on the receive communication link at a receive communication rate of the receive communication link, and to cause the transmitter to begin transmitting the traffic block when only the portion of the amount of communication traffic to be included in the traffic block has been received where transmission of the traffic block at the output rate would not be completed before the remaining amount of communication traffic is received; a traffic type determination module operatively coupled to the transmission controller and operable to determine whether communication traffic received on the receive communication link is a predetermined type of a plurality of types of communication traffic, wherein the transmission controller is operable to cause the transmitter to begin transmitting a traffic block comprising the received communication traffic before all communication traffic to be included in the traffic block is received on the receive communication link only where the received communication traffic is the predetermined type of communication traffic.