Patent ID: 7633912

Claim:
A method for transmitting data over a shared energy conduit, including: assigning priorities to data attempted to be communicated according to a first formatting mechanism and priorities to data attempted to be communicated according to a second formatting mechanism; storing the prioritized data attempted to be communicated according to the first formatting mechanism and the prioritized data attempted to be communicated according to the second formatting mechanism into a queue; determining, prior to transmission, which of the prioritized data attempted to be communicated according to the first formatting mechanism and the prioritized data attempted to be communicated according to the second formatting mechanism has the greatest priority within the queue; transmitting the prioritized data having the greatest priority from the queue on the shared energy conduit that is configured to be shared between data attempted to be communicated according to the first formatting mechanism and data attempted to be communicated according to the second formatting mechanism; and updating the assignment of priorities to data that has not been transmitted.