Method and system to abort data communication traffic in a communication network
First Claim
1. In computer system with an interface card for coupling to a communication network, the method comprising the steps of:
- establishing access to a communication medium for the purpose of communicating a communication frame;
configuring said communication frame with an transmission indication section that indicates transmission of said communication frame is being aborted;
transmitting said communication frame over said communication medium; and
calculating a cyclical redundancy check value based upon initial information in said communication frame;
transforming said calculated cyclical redundancy check value so that it is non-matching with said communication frame by creating a ones compliment of said calculated cyclical redundancy check; and
appending said transformed cyclical redundancy check value to said communication frame instead of said calculated cyclical redundancy check value.
5 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A communications network system that transmits and receives communication frames that include a transmission status section that indicates a communication frame transmission is aborted. In one embodiment, a transmission status section includes a cyclical redundancy check value that is non-matching with the information in the communication frame. For example, a non-matching cyclical redundancy check value is created by generating a one'"'"'s compliment of a CRC calculated based upon the information within a communication frame. The communication network includes a wireless network, a wired network (e.g., an Ethernet network) and a data cable system that transmits a data over cable media access control (MAC) frame with an Ethernet/[ISO8802-3] type packet protocol data unit payload.
49 Citations
12 Claims
-
1. In computer system with an interface card for coupling to a communication network, the method comprising the steps of:
-
establishing access to a communication medium for the purpose of communicating a communication frame;
configuring said communication frame with an transmission indication section that indicates transmission of said communication frame is being aborted;
transmitting said communication frame over said communication medium; and
calculating a cyclical redundancy check value based upon initial information in said communication frame;
transforming said calculated cyclical redundancy check value so that it is non-matching with said communication frame by creating a ones compliment of said calculated cyclical redundancy check; and
appending said transformed cyclical redundancy check value to said communication frame instead of said calculated cyclical redundancy check value. - View Dependent Claims (2)
calculating a cyclical redundancy check value based upon initial information in a communication frame;
attaching said cyclical redundancy check value to said frame; and
changing said communication frame by altering bits in a data payload section of said communication frame without changing sid cyclical redundancy check value.
-
-
3. In communication network, a method for aborting communication frames, the method comprising the steps of:
-
a) establishing access to a communication medium for the purpose of communicating a communication frame;
b) configuring said communication frame to include a transmission indication section;
c) transmitting said communication frame over said communication medium, including;
calculating a cyclical redundancy check value based upon initial information in said communication frame;
transforming said calculated cyclical redundancy check value; and
appending said transformed cyclical redundancy check value to said communication frame instead of said calculated cyclical redundancy check value;
d) determining if said transmission of said communication frame should be aborted; and
e) manipulating information in said communication frame so that said transmission indication section indicates transmission of said communication frame is being aborted. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
requesting access from a head end component to time frames for transmitting a data over cable media access control frame; and
granting a cable modem access to time frames for transmitting said data over cable media access control frame.
-
-
5. The method of claim 3 wherein step c) further comprises the steps of:
placing a non-matching cyclical redundancy check value in said transmission status section that indicates information in said data over cable media access control frame is to be aborted.
-
6. The method of claim 3 wherein transforming said calculated cyclical redundancy check value includes creating a ones compliment so that logical ones are changed to logical zeroes and logical zeros are changed to logical ones.
-
7. The method of claim 3 wherein step c) further comprises the steps of:
-
calculating a cyclical redundancy check value based upon initial information in said communication frame;
attaching said cyclical redundancy check value to said frame; and
changing said communication frame without changing said cyclical redundancy check value.
-
-
8. The method of claim 7 wherein changing said communication frame is accomplished by adding miscellaneous bits to a data payload section of said communication frame.
-
9. The method of claim 3 wherein step b) further comprises creating a preamble section, a MAC header section, a payload section, and a transmission status indicator section in said communication frame.
-
10. The method of claim 3 wherein step b) further comprises creating a data over cable media access control frame with and Ethernet/ISO8802-3 type packet protocol data unit payload.
-
11. The method of claim 3 wherein step b) further comprises the steps of inserting in said communication frame a plurality of high priority data indicators with high priority data between each one of said plurality of high priority data indicators.
-
12. The method of claim 3 further comprising the steps of:
-
receiving said fixed length data communication frame;
recognizing an indication that the transmission of the communication frame was aborted; and
discarding information.
-
Specification