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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:
Aug. 08, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370420 ; 370434 ; 370463 ;
Abstract
To cascade a network line concentrator and a plurality of terminals, the network connection circuit installed in each of the plurality of terminals forwards first data in a direction from the line concentrator to the neighboring terminal, provides the first data for the terminal, forwards second data in direction from the neighboring terminal to the network line concentrator, and transfers third data from the terminal toward the network line concentrator.