Patent ID: 7822907

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, at a single channel of a network apparatus, in-band data and out-of-band data from a communications network; transmitting, by the network apparatus, in-band data and out-of-band data to the communications network via the single channel; separating, in the network apparatus, in-band data from out-of-band data for data received from the communications network; generating a first address token packet of an in-band address space via a first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) process and generating a second address token packet of the out-of-band address space via a second CRC process; transferring, by the network apparatus, information of the in-band data between the communications network and a computing device; and transferring, via a universal serial bus (USB) interface module in the network apparatus, information of the out-of-band data between the communications network and a management controller based on the first and second address token packets.