Means and method of dial up bridging of network for high bandwidth digital communication
AssigneeDigital Access Corporation
InventorsJohn L. Meagher, Charles E. Rothrauff, Trey Alexander
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Abstract
A high bandwidth data loop employs a plurality of individual circuits of a telephone network using a dialing inverse multiplexer communications device. The dialing inverse multiplexer is capable of selectively accessing ones of the plurality of circuits so as to provide any selected bandwidth or bit rate up to the total number of circuits which can be handled by the dialing inverse multiplexer communications device, between any number of locations, for any selected period of time or for any indeterminate period of time.
Claims28
A high bandwidth data loop, comprising:
- a plurality of individual dial-up circuits of a telephone network;
- a plurality of communication means respectively disposed at a plurality of locations for selectively accessing ones of said plurality of circuits so as to provide selectable single or multi-channel bandwidth or bit rate between any number of locations, for an indeterminate and controllable period of time;
- wherein said individual dial-up circuits are respectively terminated by ones of said plurality of communication means;
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- a plurality of data switching means respectively disposed at said plurality of locations for changing data flow between a receiving mode which is not a SPEAKER mode and a transmitting mode which is a SPEAKER mode at a corresponding one of said plurality of communication means, and each of said plurality of data switching means having a switch for controlling operation between said transmitting mode and said receiving mode, wherein each of said plurality of communication means are selectively controllable by operation of a selected one of said plurality of data switching means at a selected one of said plurality of locations to cause transmission from a corresponding selected one of said plurality of communication means at said selected location to all other ones of said plurality of communication means at all other locations such that said selected location is in a SPEAKER mode and said selected location is a SPEAKER node, and all other ones of said plurality of communication means at all other locations are not in said SPEAKER mode;
- and wherein actuation of each said switch changes operation of the respective one of said plurality of data switching means to switch operation between said SPEAKER mode and said receiving mode.
A high bandwidth data bus which uses a plurality of individual dial-up circuits of a telephone network, comprising:
- a plurality of communication means respectively disposed at a plurality of locations for selectively accessing ones of said plurality of circuits so as to provide selectable single or multi-channel bandwidth or bit rate between any number of locations, for an indeterminate and controllable period of time;
- wherein said individual dial-up circuits are respectively terminated by ones of said plurality of communication means;
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- a plurality of data switching means respectively disposed at said plurality of locations for changing data flow between a receiving mode which is not a SPEAKER mode and a transmitting mode which is a SPEAKER mode at a corresponding one of said plurality of communication means, wherein each of said plurality of communication means are selectively controllable by operation of a corresponding selected one of said plurality of data switching means at a selected one of said plurality of locations to cause transmission from a corresponding one of said plurality of communication means at said selected location to all other ones of said plurality of communication means at all other locations such that said selected location is in a SPEAKER mode and said selected location is a SPEAKER node, and all other ones of said plurality of communication means at all other locations are not in said SPEAKER mode.
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