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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. 01, 1993
Filed:
May. 23, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter M Melliar-Smith, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Louise E Moser, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 32 ;
Abstract
A broadcast protocol system which uses a plurality of distributed computers which are electrically connected by a broadcast medium. Each message is broadcast to all computers with a header in which there is a message identifier containing the identity of the broadcasting processor and a message sequence number. A retransmission number is also included in the identifier to distinguish retransmissions. Each processor maintains an acknowledgement list of message identifiers with positive and negative acknowledgements.