Patent ID: 8306070
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. In a fibre channel system comprising fibre channel host devices communicatively coupled via a twisted pair link, a method for handling data in a communication system, the method comprising: determining a priority level based on amount of data in at least one elastic buffer communicatively coupled to at least one fibre channel host device; modifying said at least one elastic buffer based on said determined priority level; and communicating data synchronously between said fibre channel host devices communicatively coupled via said twisted pair link based on said modified elastic buffer, wherein a physical (PHY) layer block of one of said fibre channel host devices operates in a master mode, wherein another PHY layer block of another of said fibre channel host devices operates in a slave mode, wherein an elastic buffer corresponding to said master PHY layer block operates according to a reference clock, and wherein another elastic buffer corresponding to said slave PHY layer block operates according to a recovered clock.