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Highly integrated media access control

  • US 7,991,010 B2
  • Filed: 04/20/2010
  • Issued: 08/02/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus to process an egress signal within a media access controller integrated circuit (MAC IC), comprising:

  • an egress postprocessor configured to process a frame of data, the egress postprocessor comprising;

    a header postprocessor configured to deconcatenate a header from the frame of data,a payload header suppression/expansion (PHS) processor configured to expand a payload header suppressed packet from the header based upon one or more PHS rules to provide an expanded frame of data, anda packet direct memory access (DMA) module configured to send the expanded frame of data for storage in a memory.

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