Multiplex communications – Channel assignment techniques – Messages addressed to multiple destinations
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-31
2011-10-04
Ton, Dang (Department: 2475)
Multiplex communications
Channel assignment techniques
Messages addressed to multiple destinations
C370S259000, C370S392000, C370S458000, C370S546000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08031736
ABSTRACT:
An installation is disclosed having a plurality of components which are connected to one another via an Ethernet network, with at least a first of the components having a device for reading data that is intended for that component from a sum frame via a sum frame protocol, as well as a device for reading the sum frame from the data part of an Ethernet MAC frame, with at least one of the components of the installation having a device for embedding the sum frame in the data part of an Ethernet MAC frame, and having a device for transmission of the Ethernet MAC frame via the Ethernet network, and with at least one of the components having a device for insertion of an identifier into the Ethernet MAC frame, which identifier indicates whether the data part of the Ethernet MAC frame contains a sum frame.
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Jasperneite Juergen
Kuschke Detlev
DeMont & Breyer LLC
Morlan Robert M
Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
Ton Dang
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