Patent ID: 7093044
Filing Date: 2006-08-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for delivering data packets comprising: a bus configured to support isochronous and asynchronous modes of data transmission; a transmitting node configured to translate a bus-generic request for a quality-of-service connection into a bus-specific request for time-guaranteed delivery services and transmit the bus-specific request over the bus; and an intended receiving node on the bus configured to receive the bus-specific request, determine whether sufficient resources are available to allocate an isochronous data channel on the bus and, in response to such availability, allocate the isochronous data channel and notify the transmitting node of the allocated isochronous data channel, wherein the transmitting node transmits data packets to the intended receiving node using the allocated isochronous data channel, sets a timer and, in response to detecting a time-out condition based on the transmitted bus-specific request transmits the data packets to the intended receiving node using the asynchronous delivery mode.