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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1998
Sumie Morita, Kawasaki, JP;
Megumi Shibata, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyoshi Yoda, Yokohama, JP;
Hitoshi Ouchi, Yokohama, JP;
Kenji Kazehaya, Yokohama, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A communication signal suppressing apparatus capable of reducing a load of a firmware using portion is provided in a communication signal apparatus such as a common line signal apparatus. A common line signal processing circuit corresponds to hardware used to execute a portion of the level-2 process operation, and this common line signal processing circuit owns such a function capable of discarding a reception frame having no meaning other than a confirmation response, and also capable of extracting a reverse-direction sequence number thereof. As a result, the common line signal processing circuit performs a remaining level-2 process operation. Thus, since a workload of a processing apparatus (CPU) using the firmware can be reduced, this firmware can be designed with sufficient capacities. Also, other process operations can be carried out by this CPU.