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Information network access apparatus and methods for communicating information packets via telephone lines

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  • US 5,912,895 A
  • Filed: 05/01/1996
  • Issued: 06/15/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of providing communications with a CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) network via a bidirectional communications path, comprising the steps of:

  • at a first end of the communications path, providing a CSMA/CD interface to the network, buffering information packets received from the network via the interface in a first buffer, supplying information packets from the first buffer to the communications path, and supplying control information to the communications path;

    at a second end of the communications path, buffering information packets received via the communications path in a second buffer, receiving the control information from the communications path, buffering information packets to be supplied via the communications path to the network in a third buffer, and supplying information packets from the third buffer to the communications path in dependence upon the control information; and

    at the first end of the communications path, supplying information packets received via the communications path to a fourth buffer, and supplying the information packets from the fourth buffer to the network via the interface;

    wherein the control information and the dependence on the control information for supplying information packets from the third buffer to the communications path are arranged to avoid collisions on the communications path between information packets communicated from the first buffer to the second buffer and information packets communicated from the third buffer to the fourth buffer.

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