Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1995-03-13
1996-02-20
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 62, 3701101, 379202, H04L 1218
Patent
active
054935687
ABSTRACT:
The media dependent module provides an interface between an upper-level conferencing driver (e.g., a data-link manager) of the conferencing system and a lower-level communications driver of the conferencing system to isolate the conferencing driver from the communications driver, where the media dependent module is dependent upon hardware of the communications driver. The media dependent module is adapted to perform a plurality of functions called by the conferencing driver. The media dependent module has a connection state machine. In a preferred embodiment, the communications driver is a communications stack that conforms to one of the NetBIOS, IPX, POTS Modem, and TAPI transport standards. The conferencing system may have multiple media dependent modules, each of which provides an interface between the data-link manager and a communications stack that conforms to a different transport standard.
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Danneels Gunner
Rajamani Krishnan
Sampat Ketan
Blum Russell W.
Intel Corporation
Mendelsohn Steve
Murray William H.
Olms Douglas W.
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