Donald C Small

US Patent:

6522654, Feb 18, 2003

Filed:

May 15, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/079536

Inventors:

Donald E. Small - Merritt Island FL

Assignee:

Harris-Exigent, Inc. - Melbourne FL

International Classification:

H04L 1228

US Classification:

370400, 370252, 370254, 370473, 709221, 709245

Abstract:

A method and interface system for hosting a logical address based network protocol suite on a high speed serial bus network which has operatively connected thereto a plurality of network devices, each defining a node with a dynamically variable physical address. The system includes a software interface for monitoring the network to identify the occurrence of a bus reset event which has the potential to change a physical address assigned to the nodes; for receiving an updated physical address provided by the network devices as a result of the bus reset event; computer memory for storing therein an updated physical address together with a corresponding device logical address in an address resolution table. The address resolution table provides a mapping between the physical address and the logical address assigned to each of the devices on the network. The interface accesses the address resolution table upon receipt of a data packet to be transmitted to determine an updated physical address for one of the devices based upon its logical address.