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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1985
Mario A Restrepo, Ocean, NJ (US);
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
AT&T Information Systems Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Local area networks having a plurality of stations connected to a transmission medium in a daisy chain configuration at the nodes or endpoints experience difficulty in detecting collisions between signals transmitted from two or more stations using standard Manchester violation or lost carrier collision detection techniques. The present invention eliminates collision detection problems in this environment almost entirely by monitoring the signal level coupled from the transmission medium to each station of the daisy chain to detect the presence or absence of collisions and generating a collision detection output signal when the signal level being monitored exceeds a predetermined threshold level.