Patent ID: 7050962

Claim:
A method for connecting an emulated electronic device to a network operating at a specified bit-rate higher than the emulated electronic device, the method comprising: providing a computer having a network interface, an emulation interface and a memory, the network interface being capable of communicating with the network at the specified bit-rate; connecting the computer through the network interface with the network and through the emulation interface with the emulated electronic device; and executing in the computer a network handling program which performs: (a) receiving data packets from the network through a the network interface; (b) storing the data packets received from the network in a first buffer in the memory; (c) transmitting the data packets in the first buffer to the emulated electronic device through the emulation interface; (d) receiving data packets from the emulated electronic device through the emulation interface; and (e) transmitting the data packets received from the emulated electronic device to the network through the network interface.