Patent ID: 7032059
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data transmission management method for use with an IEEE1394 bus system, comprising: providing said IEEE1394 bus system having a transmitter and a plurality of instruments linked to each other, the instruments including a target instrument, the target instrument having one or more input plugs for receiving data; inquiring from the transmitter, for transmitting data over the IEEE1394 bus system to each of the one or more input plugs of the target instrument, as to whether or not receipt of the data is enabled; receiving at the transmitter from the target instrument, a receiving state status response informing of an enable or disable state of receiving the data at each of the one or more the input plugs of the target insrument; and if the transmitter receives an enable state at one of the one or more input plugs of the target instrument, allowing the transmitter to establish a data transmission line between the transmitter and the one of the one or more input plugs of the target instrument.