Method of improving computer communication speed in key telephone system

• US 5,732,129 A
• Filed: 03/12/1997
• Issued: 03/24/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LG Information & Communications Ltd. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Kie-Bok
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): BARNIE, REXFORD N
• Application Number:
  US08/815,588
• Time in Patent Office: 377 Days
• Field of Search: 379/112, 379/156, 379/157, 379/164, 379/165, 379/93.05, 379/93.33, 379/236, 379/413-419, 370/449, 370/450, 370/451, 370/456, 370/359, 370/419, 370/528, 395/200.67, 395/849, 395/867, 395/868, 395/869, 395/870, 395/733, 395/742
• US Class Current: 379/156
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 9/003 Transmission of control signals from or to the key telephone set; signalling equipment at key telephone set, e.g. keyboard or display equipment keyboard equipment in semi-automatic systems H04M3/62

Abstract

A method of improving the speed of a computer communication interface module in a key telephone system is disclosed including the steps of: (a) detecting if control data transmission/reception interrupt occurs or not; (b) checking start flag in control data; (c) performing computer communication data polling at interval less than half of a control data processing clock; (d) receiving or transmitting one byte of computer data during the period of less than half of the clock, if there is an event of computer communication data after the polling; and (e) checking an end flag, finishing the process if there is an end flag, and carrying out processes repeatedly from step (c) if there is no end flag.

Claims

1. A method of improving the speed of a computer communication interface module in a key telephone system, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) detecting if control data transmission/reception interrupt occurs or not;

(b) checking start flag in control data;

(c) performing computer communication data polling at interval less than half of a control data processing clock;

(d) receiving or transmitting one byte of computer data during the period of less than half of the clock, if there is an event of computer communication data after the polling; and

(e) checking an end flag, finishing the process if there is an end flag, and carrying out processes repeatedly flora step (c) if there is no end flag.