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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:
Jul. 03, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Armas C Markkula, Jr, Woodside, CA (US);
Wendell B Sander, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Shabtai Evan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Stephen B Smith, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
William B Twitty, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Assignee:
Echelon Systems Corp., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 943 ; 370 942 ; 3701001 ; 370 60 ;
Abstract
A cell for a network which provides for sensing of conditions, communicating messages and controlling objects through messages encoded into segments of six bit codes each containing 3 binary ones and 3 binary zeros. The messages begin with one predetermined code which provides bit synchronization followed by a second predetermined code which provides byte synchronization.