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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4427968 | Distribution network communication system with flexible message routes Each customer location is equipped with a remote terminal which contains a role code identifying the remote terminal as an end device and a plurality of address codes. A plurality of signal repeaters are each connected with certain of the remote terminals... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4399531 | Distributed digital data communications network A distributed digital data communication network having widely dispursed nodes provides for effective transmission of messages between each node through the use of flood routing. A response message based upon stored data link status obtained when a messag... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4347498 | Method and means for demand accessing and broadcast transmission among ports in a distributed star network A demand access broadcast transmission method and means is capable of supporting random port access and any-to-any transmission at very high data rates. A communication medium (FIG. 2) formed from an inverted tree network of nodes (1, 18, 22) and full dup... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4314233 | Four-wire speed independent arbiter switch for digital communication networks A speed independent selection switch designed for pipelined message transmission through digital communication networks. The selector routes a message from the input path to one of the two output paths selected by the first bit of the message, that bit th... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4307446 | Digital communication networks employing speed independent switches An assemblage of digital devices, each having serial asynchronous input and output channels, can be connected via networks of speed independent arbiter and selector switches. Certain classes of networks have desirable properties: distributed control of ro... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4307378 | Four-wire speed independent selector switch for digital communication networks A speed independent selection switch designed for pipelined message transmission through digital communication networks. The selector routes a message from the input path to one of the two output paths selected by the first bit of the message, that design... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4250489 | Distribution network communication system having branch connected repeaters Bidirectional addressable repeaters of a power line carrier communication system each include an address recognition and a receive and transmit control logic circuit having programmable zone and address identifying states for connection in plural repeatin... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4237447 | Speed independent selector switch for digital communication networks A speed independent selection switch designed for pipelined message transmission through digital communication networks. The selector routes a message from the input path to one of two output paths selected by the first bit of the message, that bit then b... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4165497 | Wideband RF switching matrix An n×m wideband RF switching matrix constructed from modules which are interconnected by simple series paths. As many modules as required can be juxtaposed to form switching matrices of any order. Each module includes n inputs and a different lumped elem... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4103349 | Output address decoder with gating logic for increased speed and less chip area A Y address decoder used in conjunction with an X-Y matrix array, high density read-only memory unit, that reduces the number of series FET stages in the electrical path needed to evaluate the logic state of an addressed cell location of such a read-only ... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4071908 | Adaptive polling technique Messages are collected by a central polling station from a plurality of remote terminal stations on a multiparty line. The central polling station is arranged to initially query stations in groups, probing successively smaller size subgroups of each group... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4009468 | Logic network for programmable data concentrator For the selective energization of combinations of up to m data outputs of a data concentrator with n data inputs (n > m), the concentrator is provided with n control inputs energizable in various patterns. The concentrator comprises a logic network with a... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3944723 | Station for power line access data system A central station is described which acts as an interface between a two-way communication system superimposed on a power distribution network and a data processing computer. Information from the computer is converted into control signals for activating va... | 03/16/1976 |
