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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2000
John Christopher Brock, Union City, CA (US);
Ronald Lee Franzen, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Stephen Safly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tod Walton Hays, Austin, TX (US);
John Christopher Brock, Union City, CA (US);
Ronald Lee Franzen, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Stephen Safly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tod Walton Hays, Austin, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system () for data communication disclosed that comprises a first transceiver unit (), a second transceiver unit (), and a communication path () coupled to the first transceiver unit () and the second transceiver unit (). The first transceiver unit () is operable to perform compression negotiation with a second transceiver unit (). More specifically, the first and second transceiver units (and) may comprise ADSL transceiver units, and the communication path () may comprise a twisted-pair cable. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for data communication is disclosed. First, a first transceiver unit () and a second transceiver unit () are initialized. The first transceiver () then communicates a request for compression negotiation to the second transceiver unit (). A common compression protocol is then identified. Finally, the first transceiver unit () transmits data compressed using the common compression protocol to the second transceiver unit ().