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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
May. 29, 1997
William Paul Sherer, Danville, CA (US);
Wen-Tsung Tang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ismail Dalgic, Mountain View, CA (US);
Peter Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An improved computer network and network device uses characteristics of prior art shared network protocols to control the flow of data and access to the network among a group of transmitting nodes. The invention determines which nodes wish to send data when a collision occurs by detecting and recording which nodes participated in a collision. A scheduling routine is designed to give each connected node a chance to send. A transmission control mechanism is used to prevent a subset of transmitters from transmitting while allowing one ES to transmit without experiencing a collision. The invention has a number of applications including within an improved ethernet repeater in a multimedia ethernet.