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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1999
Hiromi Odaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Sumie Morita, Kawasaki, JP;
Shigeru Sekine, Kawasaki, JP;
Eiji Ishioka, Kawasaki, JP;
Hisashi Koga, Yokohama, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A message division communication method and system are disclosed for a communication system comprising a host, an intermediate device connected to the host through a high-speed bus and a remote device connected to the intermediate device or the host through a low-speed bus. A message is transmitted in such a manner that the host designates and notifies the remote device of a maximum message length determined in a way corresponding to the transmission rate of the low-speed bus and divides the message into division messages each not exceeding the maximum message length thereby to transmit and receive the division messages between the host and the remote device. Even with a communication system in which low-speed and high-speed buses coexist, a message can be transmitted and received by a common communication control scheme.