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Message repeating apparatus and method

  • US 6,252,501 B1
  • Filed: 12/11/1998
  • Issued: 06/26/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A multi-processor communications system wherein the processors can communicate via a medium, the system comprising:

  • at least one programmed processor wherein the processor includes interface circuitry for transmitting information to the medium to communicate with another processor and for detecting information received from the medium which may be directed to the another processor and wherein the at least one processor includes a plurality of preprogrammed instructions for verifying the integrity of information received from a transmitting unit and wherein the at least one programmed processor rebroadcasts, at least in part, that received information in response to an error indicator being broadcast onto the medium by an intended receiving processor.

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