Patent ID: 7317691

Claim:
A method for initializing a link suspend device for optimum receive recovery from a silent state, said method comprising the steps of: utilizing a link suspend mode capable device to obtain a scrambler seed of a transmit scrambler of a partner network device during initial negotiation of a communications link with said partner network device, wherein said partner network device is capable of operation in the link suspend mode; saving said scrambler seed of said partner network device in local memory of said link suspend mode capable device, wherein the local memory further comprises link suspend control parameters of said network partner device obtained during the initial negotiation; loading said scrambler seed into a descrambler of said link suspend mode capable device upon triggering from said partner network device to load said scrambler seed in preparation for scrambled data; and utilizing said descrambler of said link suspend mode capable device to recover data subsequently received from said partner network device using said saved scrambler seed of said partner network device.