Protocol data unit interface
US9398117B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 24, 2013 |
| Grant date | Jul 19, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 4, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/322
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An interface can be designed that efficiently constructs descriptors for streams of protocol data units (PDUs) and provides coherent views of the PDUs and the PDU stream for a requesting application regardless of location within a buffer pool for PDUs. The interface creates a descriptor for each PDU written into the buffer pool and links the descriptors in accordance with the appropriate order of the corresponding PDUs. The interface can create PDU descriptors hierarchically. For instance, a PDU descriptor for a PDU of a layer N protocol can refer to one or more PDU descriptors of a layer N−1 protocol.
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