Method for transmitting source data and control data in a communication system with a ring structure

US5935214A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Silicon Systems GmbH Multimedia Engineering · DE
• Becker GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Stiegler · Ettlingen, DE
• Patrick Heck · Durmersheim, DE
• Herbert Hetzel · Schweigen-Rechtenbach, DE
• Hans-Peter Mauderer · Gaggenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 14, 1997
• Grant date: Aug 10, 1999
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04J3/247
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for the common transmission of digital source data and control data between data sources and data sinks. The data sources and data sinks are subscribers in a communication network with a ring structure. The source data and control data are transmitted in a format which prescribes a pulsed sequence of individual bit groups of identical length. Specific bit positions in each of the bit groups are reserved for source data and control data. The transmission is in a continuous data stream synchronous with a clock signal. An arbitrarily large contiguous region of the bit positions can be reserved for the source data within a bit group for data which are transmitted in data packets. Each of the data packets has a start with a subscriber address and a defined length.