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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. 05, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernard Van Steenbrugge, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 17 ; 371 201 ; 371 295 ; 375224 ; 395500 ; 39518304 ;
Abstract
A data communication system based on a serial bus and a monitor station for use with such system. A data communication system is based on a serial bus. It comprises transmitter stations and receiver stations. Frames have a sequence of start signals, address signals, and further signals, and also include control signals, and support an in-frame dialog between master and slave. A monitor station is also present and, irrespective of the source of a particular bit allows for sampling such bit in that it emulates an uncommitted slave station.