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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 1988
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1986
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A signal transmission system which constantly allows data with the top priority to pass preceding others in a bus-type network. In transmitting a packet consisting of a plurality of start-synchronized frames, the bus is monitored for a predetermined period after the first frame transmission. If a frame-start signal is detected during this predetermined period, the next frame is promptly transmitted synchronously with the detected frame-start signal. If no frame-start signal is detected during this period, the next frame is transmitted immediately after the predetermined period elapses. As a result, each frame by a transmitting terminal starts at the same time as that by another terminal. Therefore, so long as the clock pulse error between the different terminals is small enough to permit a frame transmission, the terminals can detect collision for each frame. As soon as either of the terminals detects collision, it stops data transmission, whereby a packet with the top priority is always permitted to pass.