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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:
May. 19, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary R Cotie, West Chicago, IL (US);
Charles H Culp, Mundelein, IL (US);
Daniel J Dargis, Knoxville, TN (US);
John M Mendala, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Stephen C Spielman, Glenview, IL (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ; G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
34082508 ; 34082554 ;
Abstract
In a contention polling arrangement wherein polling messages are transmitted by a central controller for simultaneously polling a group of remote stations, the polling message contains an address which defines the entire range of remote stations to be polled and the remote stations will respond if their addresses fall between the address contained in the polling message and an address resulting from converting any trailing 0's of the address in the polling message to 1's.