Patent ID: 7680069

Claim:
A method for communication of data in a bi-directional mode, implemented in an electronic device by means of an interface configured for the communication of data in a bi-directional mode and including a first and a second bi-directional data terminal, the method comprising: configuring via a control circuit during operation of the first and second data terminals a first mode of operation in which said first data terminal is configured to send only and not to receive data and said second data terminal is configured to receive only and not to send data, and a second mode of operation in which said first data terminal is configured to receive only and not to send data and said second data terminal is configured to send only and not to receive data; wherein the data are received and sent in the form of frames, each frame comprising multiple logical channels multiplexed by TDMA and respectively associated to time intervals, and wherein the first and second data terminals are configured with sufficient flexibility to switch from the first mode of operation to the second mode of operation and the reverse, from one time interval to another; wherein data received from N other electronic devices on one of the first and second data terminals during the first and second mode of operations, respectively are stored in N respective data registers of a first group of registers, and data to be sent to said N other electronic devices on the other one of the first and second data terminals during the second and first mode of operations, respectively, are stored in N respective data registers of a second group of registers; and wherein the data received and sent in N respective time intervals of a frame are stored in the N data registers of the first group or the second group, respectively.