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Method and system for processing coded information transmitted during cyclically successive time frames
Assignee: Tekade Felten and Guilleaume Fernmeldeanlagen GmbH
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Filing: 1979-09-28
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Granted: 1982-08-31
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Expires: 1999-09-28
Abstract
Abstract Thirty telephone channels are time-division-multiplexed for transmission and reception in a PCM 30 transmission system. The control- and switching-signals of the thirty telephone channels (e.g., dialing pulses, busy signals, dial tone signals, etc.) are converted from the form of ordinary D.C. currents to an encoded form which the time-division-multiplex system can process. The processing of all the control- and switching-signal data is performed during computing time intervals of a time frame which has been subdivided into computing time intervals in real-time using a control logic which cooperates with a data storage, the control logic being comprised of programmable and permanently wired functional circuit stages. The selection of a particular program from those programmed in such functional circuit stages is performed in dependence upon the significance of the control- and switching-signal information being processed.
Inventors
- 👤 Hans Schmidt
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-10-24 05:12
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04Q; H04Q11/00; H04Q11/04
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
254 words
A method of processing encoded information transmitted during cyclically successive time frames, the method including processing all information in real time during a computing time channel of a time frame subdivided into computing time channels using a control logic cooperating with a storage, the control logic being made up of programmable and permanently wired functional circuits stages, writing in the information via an input bus line into a storage of a processor, the processor being comprised of a central part and peripheral units, the central part including an instruction storage, a data storage, a computing unit, a program-word register, an input multiplexer device and a hardward-control unit; and selecting a particular program from a plurality of programs stored in the programmed functional circuit stages as a function of the significance of the information using the instruction storage to control the write-in of a particular program word from the data storage into the program-word register as a function of the significance of the information; using the program-word storage to in turn call forth one of the programs; in dependence upon the information written into the data storage computing a plurality of predefined and ordered variables in accordance with Boolean algebra; storing in an intermediate storage the program word for the next processing operation, the next processing operation being a processing operation which is to begin at a completely predetermined moment in time within the predetermined time frame; and converting the information into control commands for the peripheral units made available on an output bus line.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
254 words
A method of processing encoded information transmitted during cyclically successive time frames, the method including processing all information in real time during a computing time channel of a time frame subdivided into computing time channels using a control logic cooperating with a storage, the control logic being made up of programmable and permanently wired functional circuits stages, writing in the information via an input bus line into a storage of a processor, the processor being comprised of a central part and peripheral units, the central part including an instruction storage, a data storage, a computing unit, a program-word register, an input multiplexer device and a hardward-control unit; and selecting a particular program from a plurality of programs stored in the programmed functional circuit stages as a function of the significance of the information using the instruction storage to control the write-in of a particular program word from the data storage into the program-word register as a function of the significance of the information; using the program-word storage to in turn call forth one of the programs; in dependence upon the information written into the data storage computing a plurality of predefined and ordered variables in accordance with Boolean algebra; storing in an intermediate storage the program word for the next processing operation, the next processing operation being a processing operation which is to begin at a completely predetermined moment in time within the predetermined time frame; and converting the information into control commands for the peripheral units made available on an output bus line.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
49 words
A method as defined in claim 1, performing the processing of instruction words of the program successively and bitwise, and during the step-by-step course of the program using the hardware-control unit to effect storage and erasing of information in dependence upon the computation and Boolean-function combination of the variables.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
78 words
A method as defined in claim 1, the data storage being subdivided into a number of storage regions equal to the number of computing time channels plus the number of internal system channels, using the storage regions corresponding to the internal system channels as a central storage for internal system data and also as a computed-value storage for the storage of the intermediate computed values, and using the hardware-control unit to control changes from one address to another.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
50 words
A method as defined in claim1, using the hardware-control unit to control the write-in of the information into the data storage and the issuance of the information via the output bus line, the write-in and the issuance of the information being cyclically repeated from one time frame to the next.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
63 words
A method as defined in claim 1, using a nonalterable program programmed on a read-only basis into the functional circuit stages of the instruction storage to control the synchronizing of the start of processing in the control logic to the time frames of transmitted information, the self-monitoring of the processor and the monitoring of the input bus line and the output bus line.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
53 words
A method as defined in claim 4, performing the hardware control by writing plesiochronous information of a particular time channel more often than once during one time frame into the storage region for this time channel, and processing the plesiochronous information of the particular time channel during or in the next-following time frame.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
37 words
A method as defined in claim 1, using for the data storage the combination of a read-write storage, an addressing unit and an intermediate storage, and using for the computing unit a fixed-value storage containing no registers.
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