Title:
OPEN-ENDED ROUND ROBIN LOCAL AREA HUB NETWORK
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH07297853
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To provide a method and a device for polling a remote station in an expandible round-robin local area hub network. CONSTITUTION: This expandible round-robin local area hub network station has at least two round-robin hub station segments connected for forming the ring-shaped signal path of hub station segments. One of these two hub station segments has a master hub station segment for transmitting a control signal via the ring-shaped segment signal path. This control signal transmits the control of round-robin polling via the hub station network between at least any two hub station segments in the hub station network. These hub station segments are mutually connected by a signal path.
Inventors:
JIYOSEFU ROBAATO BAUMAATO
Application Number:
JP12042195A
Publication Date:
November 10, 1995
Filing Date:
April 24, 1995
Export Citation:
Assignee:
AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH
International Classes:
H04L12/423; H04L12/44; G06F13/00; (IPC1-7): H04L12/46; H04L12/28; G06F13/00; H04L12/42; H04L12/44
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hirofumi Mimata