Abstract:
In a multipoint data communications system a multipoint switch responds to polling signals on a signaling path from a central station by extending the signaling path to a selected one of a plurality of remote terminals. Thereafter the multipoint switch blinds itself to signals on the signaling path and remains blinded until there is an absence of signals on the signaling path for a predetermined interval of time. Communications apparatus at the selected remote terminal is enabled by a single frequency tone followed by a silent interval with the single frequency tone and the silent interval being common for all remote terminals.
Abstract:
FSK data signals are applied to a phase-locked loop whose binary signal output has an average amplitude which varies with the frequency of the incoming data signal. A zero-crossing detector produces a pulse for each zero crossing of the binary signal and the pulses are processed by a transversal digital filter having finite memory and arranged to provide triangular weighting to each input pulse. The baseband signal is then recovered from the filter output. In one embodiment, the zero-crossing detector and the transversal filter are advantageously arranged to be time shared by a plurality of FSK signal channels.