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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1998
Hidetoshi Takeda, Neyagawa, JP;
Yasuo Hamamoto, Sakai, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A transmission medium connecting device is used for connecting multiple bus type transmission media. The connecting device includes an apparatus information list containing information related to apparatuses connected to the bus type transmission media. The connecting device collects the apparatus information of each of the apparatuses, and prepares the apparatus information list. Also included are a packet receiver for receiving a packet transmitted from the transmission media and a packet transmitter for transmitting a packet to the transmission media. An apparatus connected to the bus type transmission media may request access to the apparatus information list and read out information from the apparatus information list regarding another apparatus to be communicated with.