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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:
Feb. 21, 1995
Filed:
May. 20, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Semyon Berkovich, Rockville, MD (US);
Chris J Walter, Columbia, MD (US);
Henry C Yee, Columbia, MD (US);
Assignee:
AlliedSignal Inc., Morris Township, Morris County, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04J / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 103 ; 370119 ; 3701104 ;
Abstract
A communication method and apparatus incorporating fault-tolerance and increased transmission reliability in a content-induced transaction overlap (CITO) system is disclosed. The system is driven by an error-detecting and correcting CITO-based protocol whereby transient failures are transparent to the user. A parity check is built into the protocol for detecting failures due to hard faults. A redundancy configuration is also disclosed which permits circumvention of fabrication defects, thereby allowing an increased manufacturing yield.