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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2002
Philip John Ellerbrock, St. Peters, MO (US);
Robert Leeman Grant, St. Peters, MO (US);
Daniel William Konz, Florrisant, MO (US);
Joseph P. Winkelmann, Jr., St. Peters, MO (US);
Philip John Ellerbrock, St. Peters, MO (US);
Robert Leeman Grant, St. Peters, MO (US);
Daniel William Konz, Florrisant, MO (US);
Joseph P. Winkelmann, Jr., St. Peters, MO (US);
The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A system for establishing peer-to-peer communications via a network bus comprises a bus controller and at least one peer-to-peer grouping including a source device and at least one receiving device, all of which are in electrical communication with the network bus. The bus controller controls communications on the network bus and can transmit onto the network bus an express command, which is associated with the source device of one of the groupings and identifies data on the respective source device. The source device of a respective grouping is capable of receiving a transmitted express command, and the receiving devices of the respective grouping are capable of detecting the transmitted express command. Upon receipt, the source device is capable reading the data identified by the respective express command onto the network bus, and thereafter the receiving devices of the respective grouping are capable of automatically writing data from the network bus.