Serial network topology and recognfiguration generator
US5335227A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 20, 1990 |
| Grant date | Aug 2, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 20, 2010 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L12/42
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A plurality of access ports in a serial communication network are bracketed by a pair of adapters each of which is connected to a programmed processor. The adapters have unique identities and take part in a polling sequence with any active connected devices each of which have unique network identities. The processor maintains active port status information and correlates the identities of the devices received between the identities of the adapters in a polling sequence to the active port status information which indicates the specific port to which each active device is attached.
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