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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:
Mar. 24, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruce A Loyer, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
34082505 ; 370 85 ; 370 86 ;
Abstract
A serial communications interface for coupling a physical layer such as a modem to a media access control layer in a token bus network provides data and station management information therebetween on a plurality of bidirectional data lines providing management functions and a unique serial bus for control transfer in addition to communications data.