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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 25, 1993
Eiichi Suda, Aichi, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A data transmission apparatus and a communication management method for transmitting data from task program devices to peripheral devices over a plurality of communication paths. The apparatus includes a communication path management table for storing management data corresponding to each communication path established between the task program devices and the peripheral devices, a communication path management device for retrieving the management data from the communication path management table to select a communication path in response to a request from a requesting task program device to establish a communication path to a specified peripheral device, and a communication protocol processor for controlling communications between the task program devices and peripheral devices by establishing the selected communication path between the requesting task program device and the specified peripheral device.