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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2000
Sameh W. Asaad, Mahopac, NY (US);
Kevin W. Warren, Fishkill, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of (and system for) of transporting a sideband signal through a physical layer of an extended bridge, includes on a first node of the extended bridge, providing an interface to a sideband component coupled to a side of the extended bridge, encoding a first data stream being output from the sideband component with a unique header to identify the data output from the sideband component, and multiplexing the first data stream from the sideband component with a second data stream from a principal signal port, and outputting the multiplexed first and second data streams to another node of the extended bridge.