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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2015
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Hamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuuri Miura, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a communication system including a master device that transmits a signal transmitted from an upstream side to a downstream side, and plural slave devices connected in series to the downstream side of the master device, wherein the slave devices include a communications port that communicates with the upstream side and at least one communications port that communicates with the downstream side, and the master device sequentially sets identification information that identifies the slave device from another slave device from the upstream side to the downstream side by sequentially transmitting a setting information towards all of the plural slave devices.