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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:
Mar. 02, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gregory Pearson, Granada Hills, CA (US);
Nathan R Melhorn, Framingham, MA (US);
Michael F Onarato, Acton, MA (US);
Craig A Richards, Wrentham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Microcom Systems, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ; G08C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 941 ; 371 32 ; 370 82 ;
Abstract
Method and apparatus are disclosed for a data communications system in which data packets are transmitted between two data terminal units wherein idle packets are transmitted whenever there is no data packet to send and such idle packets are utilized for detecting transmission errors in order to optimize data transmission efficiency by continually increasing, decreasing or leaving unchanged the size of data packets as a function of transmission errors.