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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1995
Ketan Sampat, Portland, OR (US);
Krishnan Rajamani, Portland, OR (US);
Gunner Danneels, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The media dependent module provides an interface between an upper-level conferencing driver (e.g., a data-link manager) of the conferencing system and a lower-level communications driver of the conferencing system to isolate the conferencing driver from the communications driver, where the media dependent module is dependent upon hardware of the communications driver. The media dependent module is adapted to perform a plurality of functions called by the conferencing driver. The media dependent module has a connection state machine. In a preferred embodiment, the communications driver is a communications stack that conforms to one of the NetBIOS, IPX, POTS Modem, and TAPI transport standards. The conferencing system may have multiple media dependent modules, each of which provides an interface between the data-link manager and a communications stack that conforms to a different transport standard.
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