Method and system for managing bandwidth on a master-slave bus

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2005-05-24

2005-05-24

Bradley, P. Austin (Department: 2833)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Intrasystem connection

Bus interface architecture

Reexamination Certificate

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06898654

ABSTRACT:
A method for rebalancing bandwidth allocations to peripheral and other devices, particularly for isochronous communications, connected to a computer system via a bus in order to accommodate bandwidth requirements of a newly added device or newly launched application is described. The method is particularly useful in the context of buses such as the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the IEEE 1394 bus (FireWire) which allow a plurality of devices to be connected to a computer system and even be powered by the bus. The method utilizes a Policy to identify preferred configurations and, furthermore, extends the USB and other standards to specify devices that can dynamically respond to commands to change their bandwidth to another setting.

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