Patent ID: 8654764

Claim:
A protocol accelerator module, referred to in the following as an accelerator module, for a first transceiver, said first transceiver being configured to forward a data packet from a second transceiver to one or more third transceiver according to a TDMA-based data transmission protocol, said accelerator module being configured to query a reference table upon receiving the data packet from the second transceiver during a first time slot, said reference table containing references of at least two of the following of reference types: a) a reference in a specific reception time slot to an identifier of at least a respective one of the one or more third transceivers, according to which a data packet received by the first transceiver during the specific reception time slot is to be forwarded to the respective one of the one or more third transceivers; b) a reference in an identifier of a specific second transceiver, as transmitter, to an identifier of at least a respective one of the one or more third transceivers as the predetermined receiver of the data packet, referred to in the following as a virtual connection; and c) a reference in a predetermined message contained in payload data of the data packet to an identifier of at least a respective one of the one or more the third transceiver as the predetermined receiver of the data packet; and if one of said a references of at least two reference types contained in said reference table corresponds to the data packet to detect in the reference table an identifier of the respective at least one third transceiver as the receiver of the data packet; and during a second time slot immediately following the first time slot to cause the data packet to be sent to the respective at least one third transceiver if the second time slot has been assigned to said first transceiver.