Peripheral station in an information handling system
CA 1112327 A · Owner: Ford Motor Company Of Canada, Limited · Inventors: Brittain, William J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An improved peripheral station in an information handling system of the type having a signal bus a master, station and a plurality of peripheral stations controlled by signals transmitted on the signal bus by the master station. Information is transmitted cyclically in information frames and each peripheral station responds to one of these frames. The peripheral station includes an address decoder for identifying the information frame to which the peripheral station responds, a gate circuit for coupling signals from the signal bus to one or more outputs of the peripheral station, circuitry for verifying the gated signal by comparing it with a corresponding next-received signal, and a …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted November 10, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 10, 1998.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.