公开(公告)号：AT183319T

公开(公告)日：1999-08-15

申请号：AT92480195

申请日：1992-12-17

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： AVARGUES DIDIER ,  LE PENNEC JEAN-FRANCOIS ,  SICSIC PATRICK ,  MONTMEUILLE ,  CLARA JEAN-LOUIS ,  MICHEL PATRICK

IPC: H04M11/00 ,  G06F15/177 ,  H04Q11/04 ,  G06F15/16

Abstract: Method for initializing a set of at least two ISDN adapter cards (210-240) being plugged within a workstation including a main processor and an ISDN primary adapter (222) for allowing the connection of said ISDN adapter cards (210-240) to an ISDN primary gate, each of said ISDN adapter cards being provided with means (640-670) for handling at least one B-channel, first processing means (140) associated with memory storage (140). The ISDN primary adapter (222) comprising second processing means (100) associated with second memory storage. The method involving the step of: performing a polling (12) in said ISDN primary adapter (222) consisting in the transmission of a specific polling pattern to each of said ISDN adapter cards, in response to the reception of said polling pattern in one of said ISDN adapter cards, transmitting a first pattern consisting of a request pattern (14) to said the processor located in the workstation for requiring a loading of the second memory storage with operational code transferred from the workstation to the ISDN adapter card (210) and the ISDN primary adapter (222), in response to the request pattern received by the main processor (260), transmitting a second pattern to the ISDN adapter (222) via the ISDN adapter card (210) that have transmitted the first pattern, so that the main processor in the workstation and the processor in the ISDN primary adapter recognize the ISDN adapter card that has respectively transmitted the first and third pattern to the workstation and to the ISDN primary adapter (222) be considered as the master ISDN adapter card which will be used in the future for the transmission of the control information and the D-channel. Additionally, that ISDN adapter card is used for the downloading of the operational code from the workstation to the memory storage located into the ISDN primary adapter (222). This results in the possibility of loading the different required software routines in the appropriated locations within the cards so that all work together together to handle a full primary ISDN frame.