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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2008
Yung-ching Huang, Taipei, TW;
Wei-wen HU, Kaohsiung, TW;
Yu-hsien Chiu, Kaohsiung County, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus of transmitting data via a multi-protocol single-medium network. The method includes initializing a network; transmitting messages in the network; setting up the size and the protocol of the messages and assigning the messages to a multi-protocol stack of the PHY layer based on a network time sharing multitasking principle; assigning each of the messages to a proper time slot; checking whether or not all messages are assigned to the proper time slots; if yes, transmitting the messages; and receiving the messages by a network device and transmitting the messages to another network device via a single-medium network.