Patent · US Expired

Method for transmitting digital data in a continuous data stream between two subscribers of a network with a single line between each adjacent subscriber

US6016321A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Becker GmbH · DE

Inventors

Herbert Hetzel · Schweigen-Rechtenbach, DE
Patrick Heck · Durmersheim, DE
Andreas Stiegler · Ettlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 2, 1996
Grant date	Jan 18, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 2, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L12/43
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for transmitting digital data over data lines between subscribers forming data sources and data sinks, being disposed in a network having a ring structure in particular and connecting a plurality of subscribers to one another, includes transmitting the data in a format specifying a clocked sequence of individual bit groups of equal length being subdivided into partial bit groups each forming a data channel for temporarily assigning each of the partial bit groups to two subscribers in the network for a data transmission. In order to increase the transmission capacity, the data channel or channels assigned to two subscribers in the network for a data transmission are freely selectable from the existing data channels, and the data channel or channels used for the data transmission are allocated to a certain data source and a certain data sink through an allocation specification, which can be defined prior to the data transmission through the use of a control command.

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