COMMUNICATION OF MULTIMEDIA DATA STREAMS OVER MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION LANES

摘要

A transmitter and receiver for communication of multimedia streams across a multi-lane communications link. The transmitter packetizes multimedia streams according to a link layer protocol and distributes the packets across multiple lanes of a communications link. The entire packet, including the header and payload, can be distributed across the lanes in an ordered sequence to increase utilization of the communication lanes. The transmitter may also packetize multiple multimedia streams and intermix the packets across the lanes of the communication lane. The receiver extracts the packets that are distributed across the multiple lanes and decodes the packets into the multimedia streams.

主权项

1. A method for multimedia communications across a communication link, the method comprising:
packetizing a first multimedia stream with a link layer protocol into a plurality of first stream packets, each first stream packet including a respective first header and a respective first payload; and distributing the first stream packets across a plurality of communication lanes of the communication link, the respective first header and the respective first payload of each first stream packet being distributed across the plurality of communication lanes in ordered sequence of the communication lanes.