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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andre Szczepanek, Hartwell, GB;
Iain Robertson, Bedfordshire, GB;
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a method and system for managing memory in a communication device which operates in a shared access media environment. In one aspect of the invention, each incoming frame of data is packed and stored in blocks of no more than a predetermined block size, each block have an associated tag of control data and an associated pointer stored in a pointer memory for locating the block of data.