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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1976

Filed:

Apr. 23, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:

Howard Anthony Dorey, Godalming, EN;

Robert John Cooke, Farnborough, EN;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
178 / ; 178-3 ; 3401 / ; 340163 ;
Abstract

In a multi-device data transmission system with source and acceptor devices linked by a data highway and handshake lines, provision is made for automatically adjusting the delay of the handshake cycle to suit the highway length and other determinative factors. This is achieved in that the acceptors do not accept data until told so to do via one handshake line, whereas the source is only allowed to issue this command when it has been told via another handshake line that all acceptors have seen the data. The system determines its own delay in this way and automatically adapts the delay to whatever length of highway is employed, whether a fraction of a meter in a circuit board or several tens of meters in inter-rack wiring.


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