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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2006
Michael Paulitsch, Columbia Heights, MN (US);
Brendan Hall, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Kevin R. Driscoll, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Michael Paulitsch, Columbia Heights, MN (US);
Brendan Hall, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Kevin R. Driscoll, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A half-duplex communication network comprises a plurality of communication links, each link being configured a priori to communicate in one direction; and a plurality of nodes, each node coupled to a first and second direct neighbor nodes and a first and second skip neighbor nodes via the plurality of communication links. Each node comprises propagation logic adapted to arbitrate conflicts between concurrent messages based on at least one of higher level policies and a comparison between a priority of each message, wherein each node is adapted to communicate a message without waiting to determine if another node is transmitting another message with a higher priority.