Communications accumulation and distribution

Claim 1

AN ACCUMULATION UNIT FOR TRANSFERRING DATA CHARACTERS FROM A PLURALITY OF INPUT LINES TO A CORRESPONDING PLURALITY OF MESSAGE ZONES IN A MESSAGE STORAGE MEMORY, COMPRISING A PROCEDURE MEMORY HAVING ADDRESSES (IDENTIFYING RESPECTIVE INPUT LINES) FOR CORRESPONDING PROCEDURE WORD STORAGE LOCATIONS, MEANS TO CYCLICALLY ADDRESS ALL OF SAID PROCEDURE WORD LOCATIONS, A CODE CONVERSION MEMORY HAVING ADDRESSES (IDENTIFYING CHARACTERS IN AT LEAST ONE CHARACTER CODE) FOR CORRESPONDING CONVERSION WORD STORAGE LOCATIONS CONTAINING EQUIVALENT CHARACTERS IN ANOTHER CODE, A PROCEDURE REGISTER AND A CONVERSION REGISTER CONNECTED TO RECEIVE INFORMATION READ IN SEQUENCE FROM SAID PROCEDURE AND CONVERSION MEMORIES, RESPECTIVELY, MEANS USING THE CONTENTS OF SAID PROCEDURE REGISTER TO ADDRESS AN INPUT LINE AND A WORD LOCATION IN SAID MESSAGE STORAGE MEMORY, A FIRST DECODER MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE CONTENTS OF SAID PROCEDURE REGISTER TO CONDITION A CHARACTER SIGNAL PATH FROM THE INPUT LINES TO THE ADDRESS INPUT OF SAID CONVERSION MEMORY, AND TO CONDITION A CHARACTER SIGNAL PATH FROM SAID CONVERSION MEMORY TO SAID CONVERSION REGISTER, A SECOND DECODER MEANS TO DECODE THE CONTENTS OF THE CONVERSION REGISTER AND CONDITION OF A CHARACTER SIGNAL PATH FROM THE CONVERSION REGISTER TO THE ADDRESSES LOCATION IN SAID MESSAGE STORAGE MEMORY, AND MEANS TO MODIFY AND UPDATE THE CONTENTS OF SAID PROCEDURE REGISTER AND WRITE IT BACK INTO SAID PROCEDURE MEMORY.