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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Venkat Iyer, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 ;
Abstract
A Universal Serial Bus repeater is provided, comprising a method and apparatus for detecting a specified data pattern and regenerating or retransmitting the recognized data pattern. In some embodiments, the invention recognizes an end of sync signal, and is operable to retransmit the end of sync signal and the following data that is presumed to be valid as a result of sync recognition. In other embodiments, the invention recognizes and retransmits a properly aligned end of packet signal, the size of which is dependent on detection of whether the end of packet signal is a part of a start of frame packet.