Patent ID: 6735195
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of forwarding data from a sending node to a receiving node across a network, the data including a set of time dependent data types and a set of non-time dependent data types, each of the set of time dependent data types specified to forward data in frames having a predefined frame size, the method comprising:determining which data type of the set of time dependent data types has the largest predefined frame size; encapsulating data of each of the set of non-time dependent data types in given frames having a size that is equal to the largest predefined frame size, each given frame having no more than one of the set of non-time dependent data types; transmitting, during each of a plurality of cycles, at least one frame of data for each of the set of data types having time dependent data; and transmitting, during each of the plurality of cycles, one given frame for each of the set of data types having the non-time dependent data, each given frame being transmitted, during each of the plurality of cycles, after at least one frame for each of the set of time dependent data types is transmitted.