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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2019
Applicant:
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventor:
Donald Robert Pannell, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/40163 (2013.01); H04L 47/34 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40273 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a physical layer (PHY) device that is compatible with the IEEE 802.3 standard is disclosed. The PHY device includes a physical coding sublayer transmitter (PCS-TX), a physical medium attachment transmitter (PMA-TX), a physical coding sublayer receiver (PCS-RX), a physical medium attachment receiver (PMA-RX), and a media access priority manager configured to initiate transmission of an indication of a priority of a frame that is to be transmitted onto a shared media, where the indication of the priority of the frame includes more than three bits of frame priority information.