Codex Corporation

Murray H Bolt

Alexander Herman

Daniel C Scavezze

A data communication network over which data handling devices can transmit and receive packets among themselves having a bus, a number of subnetworks (each having interfaces for connecting a number of devices to each subnetwork), a concentrator for connecting each interface to the bus, each concentrator having a transceiver for transmitting, to the bus and to devices connected to each subnetwork, packets originating from devices within a subnetwork (transmitted packets), and for receiving from the bus packets originating from other subnetworks (received packets), collision avoidance circuitry for monitoring transmission attempts by devices connected to the subnetwork, for detecting competing transmission attempts that would create a collision on the subnetwork, and, upon such detection, permitting a selected attempt to enter the subnetwork, while preventing other attempts from entering it, collision detection circuitry for monitoring the bus and preventing all attempted transmissions from entering the bus whenever a packet from another subnetwork is present on the bus. In another aspect the interface means and the concentrator means include a network interface unit and a further interface unit.

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Murray H Bolt