Device for the control of data flows

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The invention relates to a commutatinn device for the selective control of data transport. There are two data inputs and two data outputs, each of the latter comprising a buffer for storing, for example, each time a data word. A number of possibilities of data transport can thus be selectively controlled i.e. four for a single connection and two different ones for pair-wise connection. There are also provided, for example, seven input control lines i.e. two lines for receiving a signal which indicates whether information is present on the associated input line, two lines for indicating the selected output buffer, two erase lines for making a data buffer freely accessible after output of …