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Digital data transmission system

US4302629A · kind A · utility

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17Claims
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Filing dateAug 1, 1979
Grant dateNov 24, 1981
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Expiry dateAug 1, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/122
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Simultaneous conventional telephone signaling and audio communication, plus digital data transmission, on nonloaded telephone wires is disclosed. Modems (21) connect a telephone (23) and a digital data terminal (25) to one end of the telephone wires. A data transmitter (59) in each modem (21) converts digital data from binary to FSK form and a receiver (57) converts digital data from FSK to binary form. Each transmitter includes a frequency synthesizer that produces one of two FSK signals (F1, F2) depending upon the binary nature (0 or 1) of a particular data bit; and, the receivers include frequency detectors that detect two other FSK signals (F3, F4) and produce a corresponding binary data bit (0 or 1). Voice filters (51) prevent the FSK data signals from reaching the telephones and spurious telephone high frequency signals from reaching the telephone wires. A CO or PABX subsystem (37) is connected to the other end of the telephone wires and includes modems comprising receivers (97) that convert the F1/F2 FSK signals into binary digital data. The binary digital data from the telephone stations is multiplexed and forwarded to a data processing center (15). The CO and PABX subsyste…

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