Local communication system and station for use in such a system
US6072442A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 16, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jun 6, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 16, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/47
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A local communication system has a number of stations (10,12,13,14) connected for the communication of messages by one or more data channels (16). One of the stations (14) comprises a display device operable to display messages sent by other stations (10,12) in separate ones of a plurality of fields. A station (10,12) sending a display command and message to the user output subdevice (41) of the display device includes field separators identifying discrete parts of the message to be displayed in successive fields of the display and the message portions may be sent as separate messages.
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