Patent ID: 7082485

Claim:
A system for establishing peer-to-peer communications via a network bus, said system comprising: a bus controller in electrical communication with the network bus for controlling communications on the network bus; and at least one peer-to-peer grouping, wherein each grouping comprises: a source device in electrical communication with the network bus; and at least one receiving device in electrical communication with the network bus, wherein said bus controller is capable of transmitting a read command that identifies data on the source device of one grouping, wherein the source device of the respective grouping is capable of receiving the read command, wherein the at least one receiving device of the respective grouping is also capable of detecting the read command, wherein the source device of the respective grouping is capable of reading the data identified by the read command onto the network bus in response to the read command, and thereafter the at least one receiving device of the respective grouping is capable of automatically writing data from the network bus in response to the read command.