Patent ID: 6954450
Filing Date: 2005-10-11
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a station of a wireless network, the station coupled to a network device by a network link, the network device including a memory, a method of streaming data over the network link from or to the network device memory during wirelessly transmitting or wirelessly receiving at the station, the method comprising: accepting information describing wherefrom to retrieve a data element including at least some of the data for a to-be-wirelessly-transmitted packet in the case of transmitting, or whereto write a data element including at least some of the data from a wirelessly received packet in the case of receiving, the accepted information including information defining a memory location and an amount data in the network device memory for said data element; setting up a DMA transfer of said data element for the to-be-wirelessly-transmitted packet in the case of transmitting, or from the wirelessly received packet in the case of receiving, the setting up using the defining information; and in the case of transmitting: or, in the case of receiving: such that, in the case of transmitting, the transfer over the network link of said data element for incorporation into a packet for wireless transmission occurs in real time during transmit time, or such that in the case of receiving, the transfer of said data element from a wirelessly received packet occurs in real time during receive time.