| 摘要 |
A method for performing a protocol interfacing operation for a plurality of nodes in an IEEE1394 serial bus network. Upon initialization of an IEEE1394 serial bus due to node addition or deletion, each of the nodes formats a protocol identifier packet and sends it to the other nodes. A bus manager stores the protocol identifier packets of the nodes into a protocol map. Then, a source node sends a protocol query packet including a target node identifier to the bus manager to request the transfer of data. Upon receiving the protocol query packet from the source node, the bus manager retrieves a communication protocol from the protocol map and sends a protocol set packet including information about the retrieved communication protocol to the source node and a target node to perform the transfer of data between the source and target nodes through the communication protocol. Therefore, the data transfer can efficiently be performed with no necessity for checking protocols one by one.
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