Patent ID: 8315274

Claim:
A method for synchronizing communication in an avionics Ethernet network, the method comprising: receiving a first asynchronous message and one or more synchronous messages; allocating each of the one or more received synchronous messages to a corresponding one of one or more predetermined time slots in a fashion that causes an unoccupied portion in at least one of the one or more predetermined time slots to be produced; and allocating the received first asynchronous message to the unoccupied portion of one of the at least one of the one or more predetermined time slots; wherein receiving the one or more synchronous messages comprises receiving the one or more synchronous messages from a first communication bus operating at a first communication rate; wherein allocating each of the one or more received synchronous messages comprises allocating each of the one or more received synchronous messages to a corresponding one of one or more predetermined time slots of a frame operating at a second communication rate higher than the first communication rate to produce the unoccupied portion in at least one of the one or more predetermined time slots.