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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:
Jun. 11, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 85500 ; 370 161 ; 370 8515 ; 34082505 ;
Abstract
In a distributed network formed of communication stations having equal control functions, each station which sends a master station (or Active Monitor) determination frame appends a unique identifier to the frame, and each station which receives a frame judges the rationality of the received frame based on the identifier thereby to determine the operation of the self station depending on the result of judgement.