Appeal No. 2002-1257
Application No. 08/913,523
inconsistent information to be transmitted at the respective
assigned time instant, then substituted information is
transmitted by the respective rig along with a characteristic
identification configured to indicate the presence of substituted
information. According to Appellants (specification, page 1)
this bus management process overcomes the drawbacks in
conventional systems in which outdated or inconsistent
information is needlessly transmitted resulting in the
overburdening of the destination receivers.
Claim 11 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
11. A process for temporally managing a multiplexed
bus to which a plurality of rigs are linked, comprising the
steps of:
time-multiplexing the bus so that each of the
plurality of rigs is assigned a respective send instant to
send information on the bus;
controlling said plurality of rigs so that if any of
said plurality of rigs has no new information or
inconsistent information to be sent on the bus, said any of
said plurality of rigs sends substituted information with a
characteristic identification, the characteristic
information being separate from the substituted information
and configured to indicate a presence of the substituted
information, at the send instant respectively assigned
thereto.
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