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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2011
Bradley Richard Ree, Cumming, GA (US);
Robert Warren Hepler, Wylie, TX (US);
Ryan Marc Lafrance, Marietta, GA (US);
Vernon Meadows, Lilburn, GA (US);
Bradley Richard Ree, Cumming, GA (US);
Robert Warren Hepler, Wylie, TX (US);
Ryan Marc LaFrance, Marietta, GA (US);
Vernon Meadows, Lilburn, GA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of this invention include a network communications stack for a system for communicating data over a network. A media access control (MAC) layer running on a radio processor of the communications stack at least partially processes messages received from a network, i.e., before the message is passed to a host processor. Specifically, the MAC layer includes software configured to analyze a destination address contained in the message, and determine whether the destination address contained in the message matches a destination address programmed in the MAC layer.