Token ring expander and/or hub

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4905230
SERIAL NO

07177764

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In a communications network, a portable token ring hub which serves as a computer communications network for a plurality of computers and answers to the protocol requirements of the computer adapter cards configured to a token ring topology and which also serves as an expander with respect to an installed token ring LAN. The hub comprises a plurality of input/output ports including respective sockets into each of which an adapter card of a respective computer plugs, a trunk insertion unit having an outlet port to which a wander lead and a trunk coupling device plug are connected, and an internal token ring which is normally a closed ring but into which each of the said input/output ports and the outlet port are inserted by means of relay contacts in accordance with the requirements of the token ring protocol.

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MADGE NETWORKS LIMITED A BRITISH COMPANY100 LODGE LANE CHALFONT ST BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HP8 4AH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Madge, Robert Chalfont St. Giles, GB2 16 205
Woodfield, David Walsall, GB2 4 58

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