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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1995
Atsushi Date, Tokyo, JP;
Kazumasa Hamaguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Masato Kosugi, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiyuki Fukui, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus transmits data among a plurality of nodes connected to a common transmission line. An arbiter selectively gives use permission, to use the common transmission line for transmitting data, to one of the nodes that requests the use permission on the basis of at least a use request therefor. A data transmission state detector detects the data transmission state on the common transmission line by monitoring for a separate signal on the common transmission line, and notifies the detected state to the arbiter. The arbiter then can use the detected state to give use permission to a requesting node, for example when plural requests are overlappingly received. Advantageously, the separate signal is either an identifier which was added to data and indicates an end of that data, or an identifier that indicates that a current data transmission will be finished after the lapse of a predetermined time.