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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:
Sep. 24, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Israel Cidon, New York, NY (US);
Inder S Gopal, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 85005 ; 370 852 ; 370 8515 ; 34082505 ;
Abstract
This invention is a fast contention resolution unit for resolving contention among a plurality of adapters for access to a communications network. Included in the fast contention resolution unit is an apparatus for transmitting a token about a ring from one cell to another cell bypassing intermediate cells whose associated adapters do not have a request to gain access to the communications network.