PHASE RELATIONSHIP CONTROL FOR CONTROL CHANNEL OF A MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION LINK

摘要

The present invention relates to a multimedia system for data communication. A source device communicates through a full duplex control channel of a multimedia communication link using time domain multiplexed (TDM) frames having n time slots per frame. The source device allocates a first time slot position to a virtual channel for data transmission by the source device through the full duplex control channel. A sink device communicates through the full duplex control channel of the multimedia communication link. The sink device allocates a second time slot position to the virtual channel for data transmission by the sink device through the full duplex control channel. A timing of the second time slot position is offset from a timing of the first time slot position by substantially n/2 time slots.