Patent ID: 6073179
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An applications program which includes program routines executable by a host processing device for permitting a user to control a high speed communications device that can be coupled to a remote transceiver capable of transmitting at a data rate Z, said applications program comprising:a detection routine for detecting the communications device and a host processor within said host processing device;a calibration routine for determining recommended performance characteristics of such communications device, including a maximum data rate X achievable by such device and for storing information relating to such communications device performance characteristics including such data rate X, and for determining recommended performance characteristics of such host processor, including a proposed maximum data rate Y achievable by such processor under conditions in which such host processing device is loaded with an operating system and other user application programs and for storing information relating to such processor performance characteristics including such data rate Y; andwherein the information pertaining to data rates X and Y can be used to cause said remote transceiver to use a data rate no greater than the lesser of X and Y when such transceiver is coupled through a data link in a channel to said communications device.