Patent ID: 8631085

Claim:
A method for exchanging data between a first and at least one second user of a network, the data being exchanged via multiple frames in a burst mode of an SPI communication between the first user as a master and the second user as a slave, the method comprising: transmitting, as part of a command frame from the master, a burst read instruction for an nth payload datum and a corresponding address during execution of a request by the first user to the at least one second user for a number of k payload data, the burst read instruction and the corresponding address being transmitted in at least one nth frame to the at least one second user; and receiving, by the first user, an immediately subsequent (n+1)th frame from the second user, all available bits of the (n+1)th frame being used for directly transmitting, as part of a response frame from the slave, the nth payload datum in a response of the at least one second user to the first user; wherein (i) multiple command frames and multiple response frames are transmitted during the burst mode starting with the command frame in the nth frame, (ii) each command frame from the master contains a burst read instruction and a corresponding address, and (iii) each response frame from the slave only contains a payload datum and no check information.