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Multiplex information handling system

  • US 4,355,385 A
  • Filed: 01/30/1980
  • Issued: 10/19/1982
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A multiplex information handling system comprising:

  • a plurality of transmitters and a plurality of receivers, all interconneted by a signal bus and by a power bus;

    pieces of control equipment associated with the transmitters and receivers, and responsive to signals received by an associated receiver along the signal bus; and

    signal priority establishing means for establishing a priority among the signals transmitted over and received from the signal bus;

    wherein the transmitters transmit said signals along the signal bus, said signals being representative of the operational state of at least one of associated control equipment and pieces of equipment controlled by the control equipment, each said transmitter normally being operative to transmit periodically and after detecting a first predetermined time period of quiet conditions on the signal bus, and at least one of the transmitters being additionaly operative in a priority mode under control of the signal priority establishing means to transmit after detecting quiet conditions on the signal bus for a second predetermined time period less than the first predetermined time period.

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