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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2000
Xiaolin Lu, Plano, TX (US);
Donald P. Shaver, Dallas, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method, system and apparatus for managing data flow over an open system interconnection type network ( ) which includes a physical layer ( ) and a media access control layer ( ). The invention implements a plurality of operating modules ( ) each enabling a respective media access control layer operating function in which at least a portion of the operating modules are implemented in software. The invention further implements a host interface module ( ) for communication between a host processor and the media access control layer, a physical layer interface module ( ) for communication between the physical layer and media access control layer, and an inter-module programming interface for communications between respective operating modules.