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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. 14, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bernard Aguilhon, Villeneuve-Loubet, FR;
Rene Doucet, Le Touvet, FR;
Jean-Francois Karcher, Valbonne, FR;
Assignee:
Telemecanique, , FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 856 ; 370 8511 ; 34082551 ;
Abstract
Arbitration between collisions is performed by means of a special arbitration path ARB conveying access requests expressed in the form of arbitration frames ARB %. An arbitration frame includes a priority field defining different classes of traffic, and a numerical field identifying each station, together with bits that relax priority constraints. The application of arbitration frames is subordinate to recognizing that a delimiter channel of the data path DATA is in an active state. The invention is applicable to industrial networks or buses.