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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:
Feb. 28, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Leslie A Baxter, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Paul R Berkowitz, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 95 ;
Abstract
A time division communication system having peripheral devices controlled om a port circuit is arranged such that the port circuit may have assigned to it a variable number of time slots for any peripheral device associated therewith. Each port circuit has a microprocessor control device which is capable of controlling communication to or from the port circuit over the system time division bus or to and from the port circuit and the peripheral over a variable number of time slots, none of which are preassigned to the port circuit.