Honeywell G.m.b.h.

John M Mendala

Charles H Culp, Iii

Daniel J Dargis

Stephen C Spielman

Gary R Cotie

In a contention polling arrangement wherein polling messages are transmitted by a central controller for simultaneously polling a group of remote stations, the polling message contains an address which defines the entire range of remote stations to be polled and the remote stations will respond if their addresses fall between the address contained in the polling message and an address resulting from converting any trailing 0's of the address in the polling message to 1's.

Addressing system for simultaneously polling plural remote stations

In a data transmission system, the start bit is arranged so that at least a portion thereof has a different time duration than a data bit so that the data bit and start bit can be easily distinguished.

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John M Mendala