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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Patricia A. Thaler, Carmichael, CA (US);
Inventor:
Patricia A. Thaler, Carmichael, CA (US);
Assignee:
BROADCOM CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/245 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for frame preemption and fragmentation at the media access control (MAC) sublayer of the link layer or the MAC merge sublayer of the link layer. Traffic classes may be organized into preemptive traffic classes and non-preemptive traffic classes. Preemptable frames may be fragmented when a preemptive frame is to be transmitted. The fragmentation may be indicated through modification of the value of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) field in a predetermined way, through addition of a fragmentation trailer, and/or through other approaches.