Communications device and method of communications
AssigneeNXP B.V.
InventorSujan Pandey
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Abstract
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves at a communications device, receiving a request for changing a network parameter of the communications device and at the communications device, granting or denying the request based on link status information that is stored in the communications device, where the link status information specifies a link failure status of a communications link within a wired communications network that involves the communication device.
Claims19
A method of communications, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a communications device, a request for changing a network parameter of the communications device, the network parameter comprising information corresponding to a packet format of the communications device;
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- the communications device granting or denying the request based on link status information that is stored in the communications device, wherein the link status information specifies a link failure status of a communications link within a wired communications network that involves the communication device.
A communications device comprising:
- a transceiver unit configured to receive a request for changing a network parameter of the communications device, the network parameter comprising information corresponding to a packet format of the communications device;
- a storage unit configured to store link status information, wherein the link status information specifies a link failure status of a communications link within a wired communications network that involves the communication device;
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- a controller unit configured to grant or deny the request based on the link status information.
A wired communications network comprising:
- a wired transmission media;
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- a plurality of communications devices configured to communicate via the wired transmission media, wherein each of the communications devices comprises:
- a transceiver unit configured to receive a request for changing a network parameter of the communications device, the network parameter comprising information corresponding to a packet format of the communications device;
- a storage unit configured to store link status information, wherein the link status information specifies a link failure status of a communications link within the wired communications network that involves the communication device;
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- a controller unit configured to grant or deny the request based on the link status information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.