Method for effecting mutual transmission of data between individual machine units using simultaneous parallel transfers and a system thereof
AssigneeKonami Corporation
InventorMasahiro Okada
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Abstract
A method for transmitting data of one of three or more unit machines to another unit machine, each unit machine including a computer provided with a memory for storing data. The method includes connecting the respective computers of all the unit machines in parallel with one another; and rendering the computer of one unit machine transmit its data to the computers of the other unit machines, and rendering the computer of another unit machine transmit its data to the computers of the other unit machines after the computer of the one unit machine completes its data transmission.
Claims8
A method for transmitting data in an apparatus having a plurality of machine units each connected in parallel to a common transmission bus, each of said machine units including a memory for storing data, transmission means for transmitting and receiving data on said transmission bus, and processing means for processing data stored in said memory, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) transmitting data from one of the machine units simultaneously to all others of the machine units;
- (b) transmitting data from a next one of said machine units simultaneously to all others of the machine units according to a predetermined order;
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- progressively repeating step (b) following completion of step (b) until all the machine units have transmitted data to all others of the machine units and each of said machine units has an identical set of data comprised of said data transferred from said other machine units.
An apparatus comprising:
- 1st to nth machine units, wherein n is at least 3;
- a data bus connecting said 1st to nth machine units in parallel;
- and
- each of said 1st to nth machine units including:
- a memory including data having an identifier for identifying which of said 1st to nth machine units said data originates from;
- transmission means for transmitting and receiving data and recognizing said identifiers;
- and
- control means for controlling said transmission means to simultaneously transmit said data to all others of said 1st to nth machine units in a predetermined sequence wherein said transmission of data begins with transmission by said 1st machine and sequentially progresses until said nth machine unit effects transmission subsequent to which said predetermined sequence repeats, said control means including means for determining a termination of a data transmission of an immediately preceding one of said 1st to nth machine units in said predetermined sequence and effecting said transmission upon determination of said termination whereby each of said 1st to nth machine units has an identical set of data comprised of said data transferred from said other 1st to nth machine units.
An apparatus comprising:
- 1st to nth machine units, wherein n is at least 3;
- a data bus connecting said 1st to nth machine units in parallel;
- and
- each of said 1st to nth machine units including:
- a memory including data having an identifier for identifying which of said 1st to nth machine units said data originates from;
- transmission means for transmitting and receiving data and recognizing said identifiers;
- and
- control means for controlling said transmission means to transmit said data simultaneously to all others of said 1st to nth machine units in a predetermined sequence wherein said transmission of data begins with transmission by said 1st machine to said 2.sup.nd to n.sup.th machine units simultaneously and sequentially progresses until said nth machine unit effects transmission to said 1.sup.st to (n-1).sup.th machine units simultaneously subsequent to which said predetermined sequence repeats, said control means including means for determining a termination of a data transmission of an immediately preceding one of said 1st to nth machine units in said predetermined sequence and effecting said transmission upon determination of said termination whereby each of said 1st to nth machine units has an identical set of data comprised of said data transferred from said other 1st to nth machine units.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.