Patent ID: 8571045

Claim:
A router for providing isochronous data transfer and asynchronous data transfer on the basis of a predetermined protocol between devices of different network sections connected to said router, wherein a connection management application executed by said router translates a user request to transfer data from a transmitting device of a first network section to a receiving device of a second network section into commands of said protocol for establishing a first data connection between said transmitting device and said router and a second data connection between said router and said receiving device, wherein said data is transferred from said transmitting device via the established data connections to said receiving device, wherein for each portal of said router a corresponding configurable IP-address and a configurable host name is stored in a memory of said router, the router comprising: an IP/1394 module for each portal for handling IP/1394 data packets each having an IP/1394 header and for handling ARP data packets, an IP-stack module for handling IP-data packets each having an IP-header, an UDP-module for handling UDP-data packets each having an UDP-header, and a command and control module for handling control data packets of a connection management application, wherein said control data packets are formatted according to a hierarchical command and control protocol; wherein said IP-stack module comprises a configurable routing table, wherein each entry of said routing table comprises a subnet address of a network section connected to a portal of said router, a subnet mask for said network section, an indication whether the routing is direct or not, a portal number of a portal of said router capable of forwarding a received data packet to the receiving device, an IP-address of another router capable of forwarding a received data packet to said receiving device.