Patent ID: 8051231

Claim:
A method of data communications among electronic devices within a computer, the method comprising: transmitting, from a transmitting device to a first translation device, data communications encoded according to an unreliable wireline data communications protocol, the transmitting device and the first translation device comprising electronic components of the computer, the transmitting device coupled for data communications to the first translation device by a wireline data communications bus; translating, by the first translation device, the data communications from the encoding of the unreliable wireline data communications protocol to an encoding of a reliable wireless data communications protocol; transmitting, by the first translation device to a second translation device, the data communications according to the reliable wireless data communications protocol; translating, by the second translation device, the data communications from the encoding of the reliable wireless data communications protocol to the encoding of the unreliable wireline data communications protocol; transmitting, by the second translation device to a receiving device, the data communications according to the unreliable wireline data communications protocol, the receiving device and the second translation device comprising electronic components of the computer, the receiving device coupled for data communications to the second translation device by a wireline data communications bus; advising, the first translation device by the second translation device, that the second translation device, at the behest of the transmitting device, and the receiving device both hold low a signal level on a wireline between the second translation device and the receiving device; and holding low, by the first translation device, a corresponding wireline between the first translation device and the transmitting device until the second translation device advises that the receiving device no longer holds low the wireline between the second translation device and the receiving device.