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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. 22, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard D Lasken, Naperville, IL (US);
Assignee:
Goss Graphic Systems, Inc., Westmont, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H / ; H03K / ; H04B / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
714-4 ; 714-2 ; 714 10 ;
Abstract
A fault tolerant multi-drop communications system (10) having a plurality of communication nodes (14), and a main control system (12) for the communication nodes (14). The system (10) has a device for disenabling a node (14) having a fault while maintaining communications between the main control system (12) and the remaining nodes (14).