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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroo Moriue, Hiratsuka, JP;
Eiji Ichii, Hiratsuka, JP;
Assignee:
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370216 ; 370450 ;
Abstract
Basic nodes each having a communication control circuit and a CPU and I/O nodes each having a communication control circuit are interconnected via a bus. Each of the communication control circuits makes the bus active when transmitting a frame therefrom, and on judging that the bus is not active when receiving the frame, suspends the frame transmission and enters a transmission inhibited state. The basic nodes periodically transmit a frame, and when this frame is received, each I/O node cancels its transmission inhibited state and thus is restored to the state in which the frame transmission therefrom can be initiated.