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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1999
Wataru Domon, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network configuration method ensuring high reliability of bridge manager selection and bus reset is disclosed. After configuring each of the IEEE 1394 buses according to IEEE 1394 standard, a network management node is selected from a first IEEE 1394 bus including at least one node capable of network management. First, the first IEEE 1394 bus is configured such that the first IEEE 1394 bus belongs to the network management node. Then, an adjacent IEEE 1394 bus of the first IEEE 1394 bus is configured into a configured IEEE 1394 bus to produce an interim network such that the adjacent IEEE 1394 bus belongs to the network management node. The configuration of the adjacent IEEE 1394 bus is repeated until no adjacent IEEE 1394 bus which does not belong to the network management node is left in the IEEE 1394 network.