Method for passing a token in a local-area network

Details Method for passing a token in a local-area network Method for passing a token in a local-area network

1983-10-07

1985-12-03

Olms, Douglas W.

Multiplex communications

Wide area network

Packet switching

H04J 316

Patent

active

045569746

ABSTRACT:
The method by which the right of access to the common communication medium of an initialized local-area network is transferred between modules having access to the medium by the module having such access transmitting a token to a designated existing and properly functioning module. Each such module is assigned a unique address, its MY ADDRESS, and has the data-processing capabilities to determine and store the address of the module to which it last successfully transferred a token, its LAST SUCCESS ADDRESS. Each module also determines the address of a module, if any, between its LAST SUCCESS ADDRESS and its MY ADDRESS, its TRY ADDRESS. The module which has accepted a token will try to pass a token to the module whose address is that of its TRY ADDRESS if its TRY ADDRESS differs from its LAST SUCCESS ADDRESS before attempting to pass a token to the module whose address is that of its LAST SUCCESS ADDRESS. Each module calculates a different TRY ADDRESS if the difference between its MY ADDRESS and its LAST SUCCESS ADDRESS is greater than one each time it successfully passes a token to another module.

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Computer Communications; "Survey of Computer Communications Loop Networks: Part 1; vol. 2, No. 4, Aug. 1979; Penney et al.; pp. 165-180.

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