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AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorMakoto Uda
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A plurality of information processing terminals 100 to 130 are connected to a network. Each processing terminal parameter-manages the total of the idle time units obtained through the detection of the idle time on the network. The processing terminal acquires a transmission privilege when the parameter and its own node ID agree with each other, and sends out the transmission frame inclusive of its own node ID to the network. The reception means 105 receives, from the network, the transmission frame transmitted from the other information processing terminals. The control means 103 extracts the node ID included in the transmission frame thus received and updates the parameter to the node thus extracted, and adjusts the synchronization of the parameters commonly possessed on the same network. In accordance with such a configuration, the transmission privilege can be rounded without exchanging a token frame between specified nodes.
An information processing terminal which is connected onto a network to which a plurality of additional information processing terminals are connected, and transmits a signal when it acquires a transmission privilege on the network, comprising:
A method for providing a transmission privilege to each of a plurality of nodes one at a time, said plurality of nodes being connected on a network, comprising the steps to be carried out by each of said nodes of:
A computer-readable transmission privilege acquisition program loaded in a node which can transmit a signal onto a network to which a plurality of nodes are connected when each node acquires a transmission privilege, said program causing a computer to execute:
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