Patent ID: 8588281

Claim:
A method of operating a transceiver, comprising: converting a plurality of data components into serial data in response to a first clock signal; transmitting and receiving the serial data; generating a second clock signal from the serial data; and converting the serial data into the plurality of data components in response to the second clock signal, wherein converting the plurality of data components into the serial data comprises adding at least one dummy bit to the serial data at predetermined intervals, the at least one dummy bit indicating a type of the plurality of data components; wherein converting the plurality of data components into the serial data comprises setting logical states of a predetermined number of bits of the serial data, including the dummy bit, according to the type of the plurality of data components, wherein converting the serial data into the plurality of data components comprises comparing a logical state of at least one of the predetermined number of bits, including the dummy bit, to a logical state of another one of the predetermined number of bits, and identifying the type of the plurality of data components based on the comparison, and wherein the dummy bit comprises clock information.