Patent ID: 7356669

Claim:
Split protocol transmission method for transmitting data and a communication thread identifier for said data along a communication path from a source functional unit (SFU) to a destination functional unit (DFU), the method comprising: directly communicating in the communication path between a data consuming functional unit (CFU) and a data producing functional unit (PFU) by means of a handshake procedure; providing a communication thread identifier (TID) from the data consuming functional unit (CFU) to the data producing functional unit; providing data related to said communication thread identifier from the data producing functional unit to said data consuming functional unit when the data producing functional unit (PFU) accepts the communication thread identifier; and providing another communication thread identifier from the data consuming functional unit (CFU) to the data producing functional unit (PFU) when the data producing functional unit (PFU) does not accept the communication thread identifier, the another communication thread identifier being provided in response to a request from the data producing functional unit (PFU).