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System and method for communicating packetized data over a channel bank

  • US 6,678,282 B2
  • Filed: 04/20/1998
  • Issued: 01/13/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/23/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for communicating packetized data over a communications link using a channel bank having a time division multiplexing addressing scheme, comprising:

  • a plurality of channel units each generating packetized data; and

    contention circuitry incorporated into the channel bank that ignores time slot boundaries in the time division multiplexing addressing scheme while enabling a packetized data protocol in the channel units for communicating packetized data over the communications link independently of the time slot boundaries.

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