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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2003
Shohachi Miyamae, Machida, JP;
Tetsuya Tanaka, Sugar Land, TX (US);
David Santoso, Sagamihara, JP;
David Mathison, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Shohachi Miyamae, Machida, JP;
Tetsuya Tanaka, Sugar Land, TX (US);
David Santoso, Sagamihara, JP;
David Mathison, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for communicating between downhole tools without the necessity of routing the communication through a surface module. Communications sent by downhole tools are examined and extracted downhole. If the communications are intended for other downhole tools, the communications are copied to a downlink and send to a specific intended tool, a group of tools, or all the tools. This is all done downhole, significantly reducing the latency between command and response.