Method for the connection-oriented transmission of data packets

• US 7,006,460 B1
• Filed: 02/08/2000
• Issued: 02/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Vollmer, Vasco, Radimirsch, Markus, Seidel, Guenter
• Primary Examiner(s): Pezzlo, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tsegaye, Saba
• Application Number:
  US09/913,470
• Time in Patent Office: 2,212 Days
• Field of Search: 370310-3102, 370/312, 370328-329, 370389-390, 370/392, 370/394, 370/395.1, 370/395.3, 370398-399, 370/470, 370473-475, 370496-498
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2854 Wide area networks, e.g. public data networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

An identifier is stored within the transmission frame to provide a connection-oriented transmission in a communications system, the identified indicating the connection to which containers for useful data packets transmitted by a subscriber to the master station belong.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting data packets in a communications system in a frame-oriented form between a master station and a plurality of subscribers, comprising:

exchanging useful data packets and control data packets between the master station and the subscribers, at least one of the useful data packets and the control data packets being stored in containers within a transmission frame;

storing an identifier in an information element within each of the containers within the transmission frame to identify a virtual connection to which at least of one the useful data packets belongs, the identifier indicating the connection to which at least one of the containers for useful data packets transmitted by one of the subscribers to the master station belongs; and

stipulating between the master station and the one of the subscribers that the at least one of the containers for useful data packets in the transmission frame is filled with a plurality of control data packets that are transmitted together, wherein at least one of the plurality of control data packets includes information regarding the content of a subsequent container for useful data packets, and wherein the information regarding the content specifies which subsequent containers for useful data packets are filled with control data packets.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storing step includes storing the identifier within at least one of the control data packets.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storing step includes storing one connection identifier in the information element for every container for useful data packets.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storing step includes storing in a header of the information element a type of fields contained in the information element.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storing step includes storing in the information element a length of the information element.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storing step includes storing in the information element a field indicating for two other fields whether the two other fields specify:

one connection ID and for a number of useful data packets for the one connection ID, or two connection IDs.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

allocating terminal resources per subscriber or per subscriber terminal, the subscriber or subscriber terminal selecting the useful data packets of different connections.