Patent ID: 7619984

Claim:
A method, comprising: identifying a repeating primitive sequence followed by another primitive within a received frame, the repeating primitive sequence comprising repeated primitives of identical primitive type, the another primitive having a different respective primitive type from the identical primitive type, the another primitive indicating to a receiver of the received frame that data that is between the another primitive and a next succeeding primitive in the received frame is to be ignored by the receiver; determining whether the data that is between the another primitive and the next succeeding primitive includes one or more errors; if number of the one or more errors is less than a determined threshold, indicating a successful reception of the received frame despite the one or more errors; and if an error condition exists in the received frame, indicating, despite the existence of the error condition, that no error exists in the received frame if: integrity of frame information structure of the received frame is uncompromised by the error condition; and a primitive control character is uninvolved in the error condition.