Communications network and method of regulating access to the busses in said network

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5337312
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07722461

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There is provided a method of regulating access to a unidirectional bus transmission system to which a plurality of stations identified by labels are connected, on which system data are transmitted in time slots which are released in numbered cycles by a headend unit, and in which said headend unit sends, for each of said cycles, a request poll message carrying the respective cycle number. The method comprises i) logically combining a source station label and a destination station label, ii) deriving a first control number from the logical combination of the source station label and the destination station label, iii) using, for requesting slots in which to transmit said data, a request poll message carrying a cycle number which corresponds to said first control number, and iv) subsequently transmitting said data in slots of a cycle whose number corresponds to said first control number.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Heinzmann, Peter L Windlach, CH 2 35
Mueller, Johann R Langnau am Albis, CH 8 320
Nassehi, Mehdi M Horgen, CH 5 92

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