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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 1979
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
William L Aranguren, Sayreville, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364200 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to method and apparatus for providing a communication arrangement between two or more independently operable microprocessor units (MPUs). Large amounts of data or data in block format are capable of being passed between MPUs via the present intercommunication channel with little handshaking between MPUs. In the present arrangement, a plurality of MPUs sequentially access, under the control of a synchronous clock, a common memory for random access to blocks of memory for writing data therein or for reading data previously written therein without the necessity for contention resolving means.