Patent ID: 8786776

Claim:
A device comprising: first circuitry to receive first sideband data of a first data frame and first video data of the first data frame, including the first circuitry to receive the first sideband data during a first vertical blanking period; second circuitry to generate a second data frame based on the received first data frame; and third circuitry to transmit the second data frame via a hardware interconnect compatible with physical layer requirements of an interface specification, wherein the interface specification includes a data frame format comprising a total of X consecutive horizontal lines of vertical blanking data and a total of Y consecutive horizontal lines of data including video data, the third circuitry to transmit the second data frame including: during a data disable period, the third circuitry to transmit vertical blanking data, including the third circuitry to transmit only (X−N) consecutive horizontal lines of data; and during a data enable period: the third circuitry to transmit second sideband data based on the first sideband data, including the third circuitry to transmit N horizontal lines of data; and the third circuitry to transmit non-compressed video data, including the third circuitry to transmit Y horizontal lines of data, wherein X is a first integer, Y is a second integer, and N is a third integer.