Patent ID: 6513085
Filing Date: 2003-01-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A serial bus interface disposed on a local node for interfacing between a serial bus and a host system and for receiving information from the serial bus placed thereon by a remote node and transferring this received data to the host system, and receiving information from the host system and transferring the received information to the serial bus for reception by the remote node, comprising:a data receiver for receiving data generated by the remote node from the serial bus; a data transmitter for transmitting data to the serial bus for receipt at the remote node; a plurality of registers, at least one of said registers addressable by the remote node for storage of received data therein; said data receiver operable to store received data in said at least one register during a Read operation; said data transmitter for transmitting data to said serial bus during a Write operation; and a host bus interface for interfacing directly with a host bus on the host system, said host bus interface for transferring data stored in said at least one register to the host bus during a Write operation when the data is received and stored in said at least one register and retrieving data from the host bus during a Read operation.