Patent ID: 8880942

Claim:
Method for ensuring guaranteed services for real-time traffic on an interconnect with errors, wherein different categories of traffic including control traffic, a first traffic class, re-transmissions of a second traffic class, the second traffic class, and best-effort traffic have priorities associated to them in decreasing order respectively, and wherein the real-time traffic comprises one or more of hard real-time traffic as the first traffic class, soft real-time traffic as the second traffic class, the control traffic, and the best-effort traffic, comprising the steps of: transmitting the real-time traffic from a transmitter to a receiver; detecting, by the receiver, whether an error has occurred during the transmission of the real-time traffic and reporting the error to the transmitter; and if the real-time traffic comprises the first traffic class, passing on the real-time traffic of the first traffic class regardless of errors without waiting for a re-transmission; if the real-time traffic comprises the second traffic class, re-transmitting at least part of the real-time traffic of the second traffic class by the transmitter if the transmitter has received an error report from the receiver within a predetermined time period.