Patent ID: 9110794
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G06F,H04J,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a plurality of data frames at a destination node in a communications system; storing payload data from each of 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 each of the plurality of received data frames is stored in the memory; recording a virtual write address for each of the plurality of received data frames to a memory location, the virtual write address including a corresponding multiframe indicator value for each of the received data frames and a byte number for the last received byte from the received data frames; and reading a group of associated data frames identified by corresponding ones of the multiframe indicators and the byte number indicators, the reading being based on determining a minimum write address from a plurality of physical write addresses in the group of associated data frames by comparing virtual write addresses of all members in the group.