Patent ID: 6996632

Claim:
A network, comprising: at least one transmitting device and at least one receiving device; and a bus coupled to between the devices to exchange frames, wherein each frame is to include a data structure, at least one control structure, and a clock structure, and wherein a rising edge of each frame is to indicate the clock structure and a falling edge of each frame is to indicate that a structure that follows the falling edge of the frame is the data structure or the command structure, and wherein any receiving device in a set of devices is coupled to use a clock structure to adjust each phase of one or more of the frames to synchronize the frames with each other, wherein the falling edge of the frame occurring at one predetermined point in the control structure is to indicate a first command word and the falling edge of the frame occurring at a second predetermined point in the control structure is to indicate a secondary set of command words, and wherein the falling edge of the frame occurring at one predetermined point in the data structure indicates a first data word and the falling edge of the frame occurring at a second predetermined point in the data structure indicates a secondary set of data words, and wherein the secondary set of command words is greater than the secondary set of data words.