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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. 03, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1979
Clifford B Schrock, Beaverton, OR (US);
Linley F Gumm, Beaverton, OR (US);
Cablebus Systems Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
A bi-directional data transmission and control system utilizing a central processing unit and a multiplicity of remote subscribers. Each subscriber is provided with a terminal coupled with the central processing unit by a suitable medium such as a CATV channel. Each terminal is provided with a demarcation plane separating common circuitry from a number of specialty modules and a common bus therebetween for circuitry simplification, application expandability and individual tailoring. The data transmission scheme efficiently utilizes the frequency spectrum and enhances polling frequency by permitting selective polling of any given specialty module or subscriber at any given time and by permitting simultaneous polling of every subscriber for service calls, thereafter locating the caller with minimal polling. Data transmission protocol is expandable or contractable for each terminal independently of others and permits data transmission between any two points in the system. The system is zoned such that failure of one zone does not disable the entire system.