Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.

Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Sean Connell

Michael A Brasch

Alexander George Lastovich

Richard L Moore

William Kevin Carpenter

Terry Marc Hardie

Joshua Herr

Owen Lewis Joyce

Kristin Weidemaier

Eric Fallows

Qihua Xu

David S Sebba

Jon E Salomon

Richard Abbot

Cristian Clavijo

Alexander Adam Papp

Shirley Ng

Meghan Wolfgang

Methods, apparatus, and systems are presented for communicating structured data in a system utilizing devices having different data processing capabilities. The methods, apparatus, and systems involve transmitting a unit of data from a first device, wherein the unit of data comprises at least a version-specific portion and a version identifier associated with the version-specific portion, receiving the unit of data at a second device distinct from the first device, processing the version-specific portion at the second device if the second device recognizes the associated version identifier, and disregarding the version-specific portion at the second device if the second device does not recognize the associated version identifier. Disregarding the version-specific portion may comprise examining a data length field in the data unit associated with the version-specific portion to determine a length value and skipping an amount of data corresponding to the length value.

Structured data communication with backwards compatibility

Growing community of inventors

Richmond, CA, United States of America

Sean Connell