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Modem end of message detector

US4494240A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 3, 1983
Grant dateJan 15, 1985
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Expiry dateJan 3, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/06
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In modem apparatus having receiver circuitry which demodulates a received carrier into a sequence of received signals and decodes each signal into a signal point drawn from a predetermined signal point alphabet, the received carrier being modulated in accordance with a sequence of signal points representing a message, that improvement having circuitry for estimating the receipt of the end of the message by testing each received signal against a predetermined end-of-message condition.

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