Patent ID: 7653770

Claim:
A system comprising: a first bidirectional bus and a second bidirectional bus, the first bidirectional bus having at least a first data communication component and the second bidirectional bus having at least a second data communication component; and a first datalink interface component and a second datalink interface component configured to interface with a bidirectional communication datalink, where the datalink interface components operate in at least one of a first data communication state, a second data communication state, and a wholly inactive state, wherein the first data communication state causes the first data communication component to communicate via the datalink interface components and the second data communication component to be in an inactive state, wherein the second data communication state causes the first data communication component to exist in an inactive state and the second data communication component to communicate via the datalink interface components, and wherein the datalink interface components combine the first bidirectional bus and the second bidirectional bus into a single bus interface configuration (i) to support continuous data streaming between the first and second bidirectional buses and (ii) to limit a number of total buses in the system.