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Synchronization for a digital train intended for a correct framing of received information

US4594708A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 11, 1983
Grant dateJun 10, 1986
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY04S40/20
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A digital train is synchronized to correct the framing of received information. To this end, the transmitted digital train is timely structured into recurrent time intervals having a fixed length. The information to be transmitted is divided into blocks called packets, having the length of a time interval and comprising a field of data and a header used for identifying the packets. A digital transmission system with a TDM multiplex is divided into equal and recurrent time intervals, wherein the information is indexed by an associated explicit header, and wherein the absence of information in a time interval is indexed by a specific header which is not used elsewhere as a header. The recognition of a specific address is also used for synchronizing the alignment of the time intervals.

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