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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1999
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A networking method is disclosed. At least one silent slot is included in either a collision detection prefix disposed before a preamble of one or more frames of data to be transmitted across a media or in the one or more frames of data to be transmitted across the media. Transmission collision is detected during the at least one silent slot included. In one embodiment, the method is embodied in a network interface controller having a media access control block to control access to a media, and a physical signal block to physically signal data to be transmitted. The media access controller includes the at least one silent slot in either the collision detection prefix or in the data, and the physical signaling block performs the transmission collision detection during the included at least one silent slot.