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Communication protocol for transferring information across a serial communication link

US5592487A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 20, 1995
Grant dateJan 7, 1997
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Expiry dateMar 20, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L25/4906
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A communications protocol having a plurality of signals, wherein the plurality of signals includes data packets, control packets, checksum packets and sync symbols. One of the control packets is transmitted after a sync symbol is transmitted. One of the sync symbols, data packets or checksum packets is transmitted after the control packet is transmitted. One of the sync symbols is transmitted after one of said checksum packets is transmitted and one of the sync symbols or another of the data packets is transmitted after one of the data packets is transmitted.

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