Patent ID: 7304950

Claim:
In a system that includes a master component that is configured to communicate with one or more slave components over a clock wire and a data wire, a method for the master component communicating to dynamically adjust a frame structure for a guaranteed header two-wire interface used to communicate with the one or more slave components, the method comprising the following: an act of determining that a first operation is to be performed on a first slave component of the one or more slave components; an act of transmitting at least a portion of a first frame to the one or more slave components including a first operation code that represents the first operation; an act of determining that a second operation is to be performed on a second slave component of the one or more slave components; and an act of transmitting at least a portion of a second frame to the one or more slave components include a second operation code that represents the second operation, wherein the second frame includes fields that are not included in the first frame.