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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1999
J. Mark Stevenson, San Diego, CA (US);
Susan G. Briest, San Diego, CA (US);
Alan Fronk, Oceanside, CA (US);
William H. Marn, San Diego, CA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A communications node includes a controller for 1) initializing a counter and resetting a FIFO buffer; 2) determining if a predetermined number of data packets have been transmitted; 3) transmitting the data packets after the FIFO buffer is partially filled if the number of data packets transmitted is less than the predetermined number, incrementing the counter, and returning to step (2); 4) directing a transceiver to be in a receive mode if the predetermined number of data packets have been transmitted; 5) determining if a command signal has been detected; 6) processing a backlink command if a command signal has been detected, and then directing the transceiver to be in transmit mode, clearing the counter, and returning to step(2); and 7) setting the receiver in a transmit mode if no command signal has been detected, and then clearing the counter and returning to step (2).