Patent ID: 6985496

Claim:
A communications management device for sending data over a network, comprising: a routing table comprising, a destination address, a first data length for disassembling based on said destination address, and a send interface; a send data preparation entity that selects said first data length and said send interface using said destination address in said routing table, and disassembles data to said first data length; a first driver associated with said send interface for sending said data disassembled to said first data length over said network; a multi-data-length management entity that sets or changes said first data length in said routing table; a multi-data-length management table comprising a sender address of receive data, a second data length based on said sender address, and a receive interface with a second driver; a multi-data-length receiving entity that selects said second data length and said receive interface with said second driver using said sender address of receive data in said multi- data-length management table; and wherein said receive interface with said second driver receives said receive data with said second data length.