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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2012
Sigma Designs Israel S.d.i Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Raphi Zadicario, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Ron Sterenson, Raanana, IL;
Aharona Lurie, Or Yehuda, IL;
Reuven Franco, Tel Aviv, IL;
Rani Keren, Ramat HaSharon, IL;
Boaz Kol, Hod-Hasharon, IL;
Sigma Designs Israel S.D.I. Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Abstract
A coordinator for coordinating the use of a physical layer between a first network operating using a first network protocol and a second network operating using a second network protocol different from the first network protocol, the network protocols being non-interoperable and supporting centralized management of nodes by a master device in each network respectively, including a receiver, a transmitter, a coordinator first network type device (CNTD) and a coordinator second network type device (CNTD), both coupled with the receiver and the transmitter, and a synchronizer and coordinator (SAC) coupled with the CNTDand CNTD, the SAC including a required resources determinator, for determining the required resources of both networks for the next transmission cycle and for providing the required resources of one network to the other, wherein the master device of one network allocates resources to the other network and vice-versa.