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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2008
Ralph C. Brindle, Edina, MN (US);
Ralph C. Brindle, Edina, MN (US);
Honeywell International, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatuses and methods for timing access to a shared communications bus by a plurality of devices. Each of a plurality of nodes is successively provided an opportunity to gain access to a shared bus according to a time slot allocation referenced from a time reference. The successive time slot allocation occurs until one of the nodes has a message to send via the shared bus. The node that has the message to send transmits a frame onto the bus. A new time reference is established at each of the nodes based on an indication provided by the transmitted frame, whereby each of the nodes can then be afforded a new opportunity to gain access to the shared bus according to the time slot allocation referenced from the new time reference.