Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – With meter reading
Patent
1982-12-28
1987-02-10
Weldon, Ulysses
Communications: electrical
Continuously variable indicating
With meter reading
370 43, 370 61, 34082551, H04Q 100
Patent
active
046426302
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for bus contention resolution for use in a digital communications system wherein a plurality of communications controllers are connected to a shared bus for transmitting information in frames. A priority field is included in each transmitted frame. The bus is monitored such that any time the bus is conveying a frame, the priority field of that frame is known at each of the communications controllers. A given communications controller makes a determination based on the priority fields of a new frame and a present frame being actively conveyed by the shared bus that the new frame is of higher priority than the present frame. Upon such a determination, the given communications controller transmits the new frame.
In accordance with a second aspect of the method and apparatus, the bus has the characteristic that when any communications controller connected thereto transmits a predetermined logic value, the bus conveys that predetermined logic value regardless of logic values transmitted by other communications controllers. Each communications controller monitors the bus and counts the number of consecutive bits conveyed thereon having the predetermined logic value. Any communications controller that desires access to the bus consecutively transmits the predetermined logic value a number of times such that the predetermined logic value is conveyed a fixed number of times on the bus. The communications controller then transmits a unique bit sequence but terminates transmission when a difference is detected between a bit transmitted by that communications controller and a bit contemporaneously conveyed by the shared bus.
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Beckner Mark W.
Starr Thomas J. J.
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Watland Ross T.
Weldon Ulysses
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