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Digital multi-customer data interface

  • US 4,577,314 A
  • Filed: 03/31/1983
  • Issued: 03/18/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A digital customer interface arrangement for communicating packets of data between a plurality of customer lines and a packet switch and comprisingmeans responsive to a receipt of serial bit signals for a plurality of customer lines for serially time multiplexing said bit signals,means responsive to a receipt of the time multiplexed bit signals for assembling individual byte signals for each one of said lines,means cooperating with said assembling means and controlled by the assembled byte signals for generating individual packets of data signals for each one of said lines,means for storing each generated packet of signals,means responsive to a receipt of customer line status bit signals from said time multiplexing means for control buffering said status bit signals for each of said lines, andmeans controlled with said buffered status bit signals and by said generating means for controlling a reading of the stored packets of signals from said storing means for transmission to said packet switch.

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