Communicating system
CA 2037510 A1 · Owner: Lacas, Mark A. · Inventors: Lacas, Mark A.; Warman, David J.
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Abstract of the Disclosure Stations in a sequence accepting a vector from preceding stations in the sequence communicate data packets to other stations in the sequence. Each station receiving the vector becomes spliced out of the sequence by communicating such a desire to the preceding station, which then provides for the passing of the vector to the station following the next station. Alternatively an individual station (not in the sequence) between the communicating and next stations can be spliced into the sequence by communicating to all stations such a desire before any response from the next station. If the next station does not respond to the communicating station the communicating, …
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- Filed March 4, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 4, 2011.
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