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AssigneeSociete Anonyme de Telecommunications
InventorGuy A. M. de Passoz
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A process for the compression of signalling data or the like transmitted in a stream of digital PCM information organized in multiplexing frames, the signalling data being inserted in a specific time slot of the PCM frames, the signalling binary digits transmitted in the same PCM frame belonging to independent signalling channels a, b, . . . of rate H.sub.1, comprising the steps of extracting the signalling data from the digital stream and effecting in parallel, for each signalling channel, a processing comprising the steps of coding the transitions by a group of binary digits of which the first indicates the polarity of the transition and the following indicates or indicate in which nth fraction of a clock period corresponding to a rate H.sub.1 /n the transition is located, and transmitting unchanged at least one of the bits which follow the transition, the signals L.sub.a, L.sub.b . . . thus obtained containing the same quantity of information as the signalling channels, but having a rate divided by n.
A process for the compression of signalling data or the like transmitted in a stream of digital PCM information organized in multiplexing frames, the signalling data being inserted in a specific time slot of the PCM frames, the signalling binary digits transmitted in the same PCM frame belonging to independent singalling channels a, b, . . . of rate H.sub.1, comprising the steps of extracting the signalling data from the digital stream and effecting in parallel, for each signalling channel, a processing comprising the steps of coding the transitions by a group of binary digits of which the first indicates the polarity of the transition and the following indicates or indicate in which nth fraction of a clock period corresponding to a rate H.sub.1 /n the transition is located, n being an integer having a value in the range from two to five, inclusive, and transmitting unchanged at least one of the bits which follow the transition, the signals L.sub.a, L.sub.b . . . thus obtained containing the same quantity of information as the signalling channels, but having a rate divided by n.
A device for the compression of signalling data or the like transmitted in a stream of digital PCM information organized in multiplexing frames, the signalling data being inserted in a specific time slot of the PCM frames, the signalling binary digits transmitted in the same PCM frame belonging to independent signalling channels a, b, . . . of rate H.sub.1, comprising the steps of extracting the signalling data from the digital stream and effecting in parallel, for each signalling channel, a processing comprising the steps of coding the transitions by a group of binary digits of which the first indicates the polarity of the transition and the following indicates or indicate in which nth fraction of a clock period corresponding to a rate H.sub.1 /n the transition is located, n being an integer in the range from two to five, inclusive, and transmitting unchanged at least one of the bits which follow the transition, the signals L.sub.a, L.sub.b. . . thus obtained containing the same quantity of information as the signalling channels, by having a rate divided by n, whereby the transitions are coded in a device comprising, for each signalling channel, a first AND gate, and first flip-flop connected to the output of said first AND gate and receiving a H.sub.1 clock signal, a second flip-flop connected to the output of said first flip-flop and receiving the H.sub.1 clock signal, a third flip-flop connected to the output of said first flip-flop and receiving a H.sub.1 /n clock signal, a first EXCLUSIVE OR gate connected to the outputs of said second and third flip-flops, a fourth flip-flop connected to the output of the EXCLUSIVE OR gate and receiving the H.sub.1 /n clock signal, a fifth flip-flop connected to the output of said fourth flip-flop and receiving the H.sub.1 /n clock signal, a sixth flip-flop connected to the output of said third flip-flop and receiving the H.sub.1 /n clock signal, a seventh flip-flop connected to the sixth flip-flop and receiving the H.sub.1 /n clock signal, a second EXCLUSIVE OR gate connected to the outputs of said sixth and seventh flip-flops, a second AND gate connected to said fifth flip-flop and to said second EXCLUSIVE OR gate, an inverter connected to said second EXCLUSIVE OR gate, a third AND gate connected to said inverter and to said third flip-flop, and an OR gate connected to said second and third AND gates.
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