Patent ID: 7423969

Claim:
A method of storing transmission units during a transfer of data between a first network and at least one further network, the method comprising: a) providing the data such that the data is contained in a payload section of the transmission units, and such that a payload section of each transmission unit of the first network has the same length; b) storing the transmission units in a segmented memory, wherein the segmented memory has a segmentation in which the length of a memory segment corresponds to the length of the payload section of the transmission units of the first network; and wherein step b) further comprises storing the transmission units in the segmented memory in the form of lists, each of the lists comprising at least one descriptor segment which describes a data structure of the corresponding transmission unit and at least one data segment, and wherein each descriptor segment comprises at least one field which defines a repeated execution of an operation on a plurality of data segments of the list of the corresponding transmission unit.