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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2009
Kye-hyun Ahn, Daejeon-si, KR;
Seung-hwan Kim, Daejeon-si, KR;
Yong-tae Kim, Daejeon-si, KR;
Kyeong-eun Han, Daejeon-si, KR;
Kwang-joon Kim, Daejeon-si, KR;
Kye-hyun Ahn, Daejeon-si, KR;
Seung-hwan Kim, Daejeon-si, KR;
Yong-tae Kim, Daejeon-si, KR;
Kyeong-eun Han, Daejeon-si, KR;
Kwang-joon Kim, Daejeon-si, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon-si, KR;
Abstract
An Ethernet device having multiple lanes and a method of operating the lanes are provided. In one general aspect, it is possible to allocate a dummy block to each of one or more lanes such that the lanes do not selectively participate in communications. In addition, on a receiving side, the dummy block can be removed from among the genuine data blocks to enable data to be decoded. In this case, an Ethernet device on a transmission side and an Ethernet device on a receiving side can exchange information of a lane to which the dummy block is allocated by use of a lane status message, and the lane status message may be based on a link fault message specified by Ethernet standards.