Patent ID: 7738502

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a noise filtering system to wait a dynamically adjustable recovery time to check for no loss of signal synchronization prior to resuming communication on a communication link after detection of a potential loss of signal synchronization on the communications link resulting in communication on the communications link for an established connection being suspended, the connection established after completion of a phy reset sequence, wherein the noise filtering system comprises: a synchronization recovery timer having an expiration time shorter than a loss of synchronization expiration time, the dynamically adjustable recovery time capable of being adjusted based on selecting a number of times that the synchronization recovery timer expires, and a noise filtering state machine coupled to the synchronization recovery timer for managing the dynamically adjustable recovery time, the noise filtering state machine to issue an idle state request to a link protocol layer and a suspend request to a transport protocol layer to indicate that the potential loss of signal synchronization has been detected.