Patent ID: 7526526
Filing Date: 2009-04-28
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for synchronously transmitting control data from a master device to one of a plurality of slave devices in a streaming data network, the method comprising: inserting, by the master device, an a first identifier identifying the slave device and a second identifier identifying a request to start transmission into a transmit data stream transmitted over a streaming data network: receiving, from the slave device, a first acknowledgment via a receive data stream; inserting, by the master device, at least a portion of the control data into the transmit data stream at least until a second acknowledgement is received from the slave device via the receive data stream; repeating the inserting at least a portion of the control data into the transmit data stream until second inserting step until all of the control data has been transmitted to the slave device; and removing, by the master device, the second identifier from the transmit data stream when a third acknowledgment is received from the slave device via the receive data stream.