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Pre-emption mechanism for packet transport

  • US 20060109864A1
  • Filed: 11/24/2004
  • Published: 05/25/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of encapsulating data from prioritized data packets in frames for transport in a communication system, the method comprising:

  • forming frames consisting of an integer number M sync bytes indicative of a frame boundary and a data field consisting of an integer number N byte fields, M and N being positive integers, wherein the individual frames are a fixed number N+M bytes long;

    encapsulating data from data packets in data fields of one or more frames for transportation in the communication system;

    selectively suspending encapsulation of data from a data packet of a first priority to encapsulate data from a pre-empting data packet of a second priority; and

    resuming encapsulation of at least a portion of remaining data from a suspended data packet of the first priority in a frame in which a preempting data packet of the second priority is completed.

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