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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1985
William P Rogers, Collingswood, NJ (US);
Telenex Corporation, Mt. Laurel, NJ (US);
Abstract
Parallel signals which are to be converted to serial form by successive time-multiplex sampling are divided into two sets, a low-priority set which change relatively infrequently and hence require resampling at only a relatively low rate, and a high-priority set which can change more rapidly and hence require more prompt sampling upon the occurrence of a change in signal value. The low-priority signals are normally sampled and transmitted sequentially at a suitable relatively low rate, but upon the occurrence of a significant change in any of the set of high-priority signals, the sampling and transmission of the low-priority signals is automativelly interrupted and the high-priority signals are sampled and transmitted instead, after which sampling and transmission reverts to the low-priority signals. The net result is that a smaller transmission channel bandwidth can be used than if all signals were transmitted at a regular rate suitable for the high-priority signals.