Availability memory for telecommunication switching links

Claim 1

A MEMORY SYSTEM COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF BINARY MEMORY ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN A PLURALITY OF ROWS AND COLUMNS, A FIRST SET OF CONDUCTORS EACH OF WHICH IS IN COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ELEMENTS OF A SEPARATE ROW, A SECOND SET OF CONDUCTORS EACH OF WHICH IS IN COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ELEMENTS OF A SEPARATE COLUMN, SAID ELEMENTS HAVING FIRST AND SECOND STATES, MEANS SELECTIVELY APPLYING A FIRST SIGNAL TO ONE OF SAID FIRST CONDUCTORS, SAID FIRST SIGNAL HAVING SUFFICIENT MAGNITUDE TO CHANGE THE STATE OF ALL ELEMENTS IN THE RESPECTIVE ROW FROM SAID FIRST STATE OF SAID SECOND STATE, COCKING GATE MEANS HAVING OUTPUT TERMINALS, SAID COCKING GATE MEANS PROVIDING OUTPUT SIGNALS TO SAID OUTPUT TERMINALS WHEN FIRED, EACH OF SAID SECOND CONDUCTORS BEING CONNECTED TO THE OUTPUT TERMINAL OF A SEPARATE COCKING GATE MEANS, MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY FIRING A COCKING GATE MEANS CONNECTED TO A PREDETERMINED SECOND CONDUCTOR, AND MEANS FOR SUBSEQUENTLY SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLYING FIRING SIGNALS TO ALL OF SAID COCKING GATE MEANS AND SECOND SIGNALS TO SAID ONE FIRST CONDUCTOR, SAID OUTPUT SIGNALS AND SECOND SIGNALS BEING INSUFFICIENT SEPARATELY AND SUFFICIENT TOGETHER TO CHANGE THE STATE OF SAID ELEMENTS FROM SAID SECOND STATE TO SAID FIRST STATE.