US4891639A
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Monitoring system of network
Assignee: Canon Inc
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Filing: 1988-06-23
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Granted: 1990-01-02
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Expires: 2008-06-23
Abstract
Abstract There is provided a network monitoring system in which nodes are connected to the LAN as a communication medium using the token passing method and only the node to which the communication right was transferred can acquire the data communication right. The node has a communication right transfer instruction discriminating circuit, provided for each node, for discriminating a communication right transfer instruction sent through the LAN; an LAN monitoring instruction discriminating circuit, provided for each node, for discriminating an LAN monitoring instruction sent through the LAN; and a controller. When one of the nodes discriminates the LAN monitoring instruction from the LAN by the discriminating circuit, controller sets this node into the LAN monitoring mode. When the communication right transfer instruction is discriminated by this node in the LAN monitoring mode, the controller indicates the change of the transmission right transfer destination to the upward node and, thereafter, sends the communication right transfer instruction to the downward node. With this system, even if the operating mode of the node connected to the LAN using the token passing method is changed from the normal operating mode to the LAN monitoring mode, the malfunction such as lost of the token does not occur, so that the network monitoring system with the high reliability can be realized.
Inventors
- 👤 Yasuo Nakamura
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 23:23
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L43/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
248 words
A network monitoring system in which a plurality of data transmitting apparatuses are connected to a communication medium and only one of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses to which a communication right was transferred can acquire a transmission right of data, each of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses being capable of operating in a normal operating mode and a communication medium monitoring mode, wherein each data transmitting apparatus can receive and transmit data in the normal mode, and can receive data determined to be transmitted to any one of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses but cannot transmit data in the communication medium monitoring mode, each of said plurality of data transmitting apparatus comprising: first discriminating means for discriminating, in the normal operating mode, whether received data is addressed to said data transmitting apparatus; second discriminating means for discriminating whether the received data discriminated to be addressed to said data transmitting apparatus by said first discriminating means includes a communication right transfer instruction; memory means for discriminating and storing a communication medium monitoring instruction; and control means for, when the communication medium monitoring instruction is stored in said memory means, changing from the normal operating mode to the communication medium monitoring mode, transmitting the communication right transfer instruction to a downward data transmitting apparatus, and instructing an upward data transmitting apparatus previously having said data transmitting apparatus as the destination of the communication right transfer instruction to change the destination of the communication right transfer instruction.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
248 words
A network monitoring system in which a plurality of data transmitting apparatuses are connected to a communication medium and only one of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses to which a communication right was transferred can acquire a transmission right of data, each of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses being capable of operating in a normal operating mode and a communication medium monitoring mode, wherein each data transmitting apparatus can receive and transmit data in the normal mode, and can receive data determined to be transmitted to any one of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses but cannot transmit data in the communication medium monitoring mode, each of said plurality of data transmitting apparatus comprising: first discriminating means for discriminating, in the normal operating mode, whether received data is addressed to said data transmitting apparatus; second discriminating means for discriminating whether the received data discriminated to be addressed to said data transmitting apparatus by said first discriminating means includes a communication right transfer instruction; memory means for discriminating and storing a communication medium monitoring instruction; and control means for, when the communication medium monitoring instruction is stored in said memory means, changing from the normal operating mode to the communication medium monitoring mode, transmitting the communication right transfer instruction to a downward data transmitting apparatus, and instructing an upward data transmitting apparatus previously having said data transmitting apparatus as the destination of the communication right transfer instruction to change the destination of the communication right transfer instruction.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
A monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein each said data transmitting apparatus further comprises third discriminating means for discriminating the mode of said data transmitting apparatus.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
30 words
A monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein each said data transmitting apparatus further comprises means for instructing recovery from the communication medium monitoring mode to the normal operating mode.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
28 words
A monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein each said data transmitting apparatus further comprises additional memory means for storing data collected in the communications medium monitoring mode.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
247 words
In a network monitoring system in which a plurality of data transmitting apparatuses are connected to a communication medium and only one of said plurality of transmitting apparatuses to which a communication right was transferred can acquire a transmission right of data, each of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses being capable of operating in a normal operating mode and a communication medium monitoring mode, wherein each data transmitting apparatus can receive and transmit data in the normal mode, and can receive data determined to be transmitted to any one of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses but can not transmit data in the communication medium monitoring mode, a method of changing from the normal operating mode to the communication medium monitoring mode in each of said plurality of data transmitting apparatus, comprising the steps of: receiving data; discriminating the mode of said data communication apparatus; discriminating in the normal operating mode whether the received data is addressed to said data transmitting apparatus; discriminating whether a communication medium monitoring instruction is stored when the data includes the communication right transfer instruction; and when the communication medium monitoring instruction is stored, instructing an upward data transmitting apparatus which previously had the data transmitting apparatus as the destination of the communication right transfer instruction to change the destination of the communication right transfer instruction, transmitting the communication right transfer instruction to a downward data transmitting apparatus and changing from the normal operating mode to the communication medium monitoring mode.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
247 words
In a network monitoring system in which a plurality of data transmitting apparatuses are connected to a communication medium and only one of said plurality of transmitting apparatuses to which a communication right was transferred can acquire a transmission right of data, each of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses being capable of operating in a normal operating mode and a communication medium monitoring mode, wherein each data transmitting apparatus can receive and transmit data in the normal mode, and can receive data determined to be transmitted to any one of said plurality of data transmitting apparatuses but can not transmit data in the communication medium monitoring mode, a method of changing from the normal operating mode to the communication medium monitoring mode in each of said plurality of data transmitting apparatus, comprising the steps of: receiving data; discriminating the mode of said data communication apparatus; discriminating in the normal operating mode whether the received data is addressed to said data transmitting apparatus; discriminating whether a communication medium monitoring instruction is stored when the data includes the communication right transfer instruction; and when the communication medium monitoring instruction is stored, instructing an upward data transmitting apparatus which previously had the data transmitting apparatus as the destination of the communication right transfer instruction to change the destination of the communication right transfer instruction, transmitting the communication right transfer instruction to a downward data transmitting apparatus and changing from the normal operating mode to the communication medium monitoring mode.
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