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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2010
Kwang-il Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Jun-hee Park, Daejeon, KR;
Won-suk Choi, Daejeon, KR;
Kyeong-deok Moon, Daejeon, KR;
Kwang-Il Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Jun-Hee Park, Daejeon, KR;
Won-Suk Choi, Daejeon, KR;
Kyeong-Deok Moon, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Provided is an Ethernet-to-serial gateway apparatus including: a buffer manager to verify a characteristic of a data packet received via an Ethernet interface, and to thereby select a buffer for storing the data packet, and to store the data packet in the selected buffer; a packet scheduler to extract a data packet from the buffer according to a predetermined policy; a packet distributor to verify a destination address of the extracted data packet, and to thereby obtain serial interface information associated with at least one target apparatus to which the extracted data packet is transmitted; and a serial communication unit to transmit the extracted data packet to the at least one target apparatus via a corresponding serial interface based on the serial interface information.