Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1987-10-16
1989-07-04
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 85, 3408258, H04J 302
Patent
active
048457221
ABSTRACT:
A computer interconnect coupler has a set of junctors which are assigned to channel transmitters and channel receivers for the routing of messages from the channel receivers which are addressed to the channel transmitters. When a message is received by a channel receiver, the channel receiver stores the beginning portion of the message in a first-in-first-out buffer, and sends a route message request to central switch logic. If the destination transmitter or receiver is busy, the central logic places the message request on a destination queue and returns a signal to the requesting source transmitter to turn on a flow control signal which is transmitted back to the data processing device having originated the message. Any message addressed to this data processing device, however, is inserted into the flow control carrier with pauses both before and after the message, and provisions are also made to allow the data processing device to return an acknowledgment code responsive to the imcoming message. To permit incremental expansion of the coupler to accommodate an increased number of channels, additional channel interface boards may be added and a hierarchical rotating priority scheme enables the additional channels to have equal priority with the previously existing channels without requiring reprogramming. Moreover, the processing and queueing of routing requests is made more effective by grouping the requests into different priority levels and using separate but duplicate arbitration logic to resolve simultaneous requests within the same priority group.
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Carn Ronald C.
Henry Barry A.
Kaczor Charles E.
Kent Allan R.
Metz Donald R.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Olms Douglas W.
Scutch III Frank M.
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