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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:
Sep. 29, 1981
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kapali P Eswaran, San Jose, CA (US);
Vincent C Hamacher, Toronto, CA;
Gerald St Shedler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3401 / ; 370 94 ; 178-3 ;
Abstract
Apparatus and method for enabling asynchronous, collision-free communication between ports on a local shared bus network which is efficient in the use of bus bandwidth and which, in one embodiment, provides a bounded, guaranteed time to transmission for each port.