Appeal No. 1999-0297 Page 2
Application No. 08/502,253
1. A method for transmitting data from a transmitter to
a plurality of receivers, the method comprising the steps of:
at the transmitter,
(a) transmitting first signals each having a first time
period which is divided into a plurality of frames,
each of the frames comprising:
a synchronization field;
an address field comprising a plurality of addresses
associated with the receivers, respectively; and
a message field comprising a plurality of messages
corresponding to the addresses, respectively, each of the
messages comprising a message and a message header which
includes an address transmission number of an address
corresponding to the message, said address transmission number
indicating a transmission order of each of the addresses
within said address field, and
at each of the receivers,
(b) receiving a frame of at least one of the first
signals;
(c) sequentially searching the address field for an
address of the receiver itself while incrementing an address
count at each address searched;
(d) storing the address count when the address of the
receiver itself is found; and
(e) selecting a message addressed to the receiver itself
from the message field by comparing the address count stored
with the address transmission number included in the message
header.
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