Abstract:
Several subscriber stations equipped with data terminals, adapted to send out and receive code words at different but harmonically interrelated rates, selectively communicate with one another via at least one central office and assigned PCM channels, each station being linked with its central office through a two-way analog-type signal path which includes an incoming and an outgoing branch terminating in respective baseband modems at the subscriber end and at the central-office end. A memory at the central office stores information relating to the transmission rates and line characteristics of the several signal paths served thereby. Three quarters of each code word are reserved for message bits, the fourth quarter being allocated to service bits. A subscriber wishing to establish a connection transmits, via the associated outgoing branch, to the central office a service code identifying that subscriber; the central office thereupon emits a pair of command signals, based upon the received code and the stored information, to select a matching filter circuit in a compatible equalizer section for insertion in series with that outgoing branch. A confirmation signal from the central office sets a clock circuit at the calling subscriber station to a selected operating speed, less than the fixed transmission rate of that station, preparatorily to the dialing of the number of the called subscriber; upon the establishment of a data link via the central office to the called station, the corresonding clock circuit thereof is synchronized with that of the calling station by a similar code.
Abstract:
A teleprinter responsive to binary code combinations includes a continuously rotating font wheel with 51 peripherally equispaced typefaces and, synchronized with it, a reference wheel with 51 peripherally spaced alphanumerical markings respectively assigned to these typefaces and with 9 nonalphanumerical markings interspersed with the former. A sensor generates counting pulses in response to successive markings and steps a binary counter whose setting is fed to a comparator also receiving code combinations or ''''words'''' stored in a register in response to incoming message signals. Upon detecting a match, the comparator trips a striker successively confronted by the typefaces of the font wheel, operation of this striker being inhibited during periods in which counting pulses are generated by nonalphanumerical markings.
Abstract:
To enable selective voice communication and data transmission between calling and called subscribers of a PCM telephone network served by a central office, the latter includes a processor which intervenes during data transmission but is bypassed during voice communication while preserving the information required for instantaneous resumption of data transmission. The processor includes two buffer registers MCD1, MCD2 for incoming and outgoing message signals and two service registers MS1, MS2 for ancillary information, each register having a multiplicity of stages which are allocated to respective channels of a PCM frame and are scanned simultaneously with corresponding stages of the other registers. Calling and called subscribers are assigned separate line links giving access to respective channels via corresponding register stages, with transfer of message signals from a stage of register MCD1 (temporarily assigned to one subscriber) to a stage of register MCD2 (temporarily assigned to the other subscriber) under the control of a programmer during data transmission. This transfer is discontinued during voice communication while the contents of the associated stages of the service registers MS1, MS2 remain intact.
Abstract:
System for the exchange and broadcast of information by means of subscribers' telephone network, in which on the subscriber's line (L), independently of and contemporaneously with the usual telephone exchange, either data exchange from and to a data network (RD) or broadcast of information coming from a data base (BD) are effected.
Abstract:
System for the exchange and broadcast of information by means of subscribers' telephone network, in which on the subscriber's line (L), independently of and contemporaneously with the usual telephone exchange, either data exchange from and to a data network (RD) or broadcast of information coming from a data base (BD) are effected.
Abstract:
System for the exchange and broadcast of information by means of subscribers' telephone network, in which on the subscriber's line (L), independently of and contemporaneously with the usual telephone exchange, either data exchange from and to a data network (RD) or broadcast of information coming from a data base (BD) are effected.