公开(公告)号：US20090286489A1

公开(公告)日：2009-11-19

申请号：US12121467

申请日：2008-05-15

申请人： Venkatagopal Racherla ,  Stephan Walter Gehring ,  Daniel Paul Peters ,  Arul Kumar Subbiah

发明人： Venkatagopal Racherla ,  Stephan Walter Gehring ,  Daniel Paul Peters ,  Arul Kumar Subbiah

IPC分类号： H04B1/38

CPC分类号： H04L1/0002 ,  H04L1/1685 ,  H04L2001/0092 ,  H04W84/10

摘要： Methods and apparatus are provided for communicating between a host and a peripheral. In one embodiment, a method comprises the steps: establishing, in a manner transparent to the host, a wireless data link between a wireless hub device and a wireless peripheral device coupled to the peripheral, the wireless hub device coupled to and configured to communicate with the host, wherein the host is configured to communicate with peripheral devices over a wireline link at a plurality of data rates when connected via the wireline link; and controlling a flow of data between the host and the wireless hub device so that the host is unaware of the wireless data link, wherein the data is to be communicated between the host and the peripheral.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于在主机和外围设备之间进行通信的方法和装置。 在一个实施例中，一种方法包括以下步骤：以对所述主机透明的方式建立无线集线器设备与耦合到所述外围设备的无线外围设备之间的无线数据链路，所​​述无线集线器设备被耦合并被配置为与 所述主机被配置为当经由所述有线链路连接时以多个数据速率通过有线链路与外围设备进行通信; 以及控制所述主机和所述无线集线器设备之间的数据流，使得所述主机不知道所述无线数据链路，其中所述数据将在所述主机与所述外围设备之间进行通信。