Patent ID: 11943077
Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A network device being a cooperative network device among N network devices of a multidrop network system, the N network devices earning transmission opportunities in turn in the multidrop network system, the N network devices including a master device and (N−1) slave device(s), each of the N network devices having an identification code as an identification in the multidrop network system, and each of the N network devices performing a predetermined operation to generate a current value, wherein:
the N is an integer greater than or equal to two;
when the identification code of the cooperative network device is the same as the current value, the cooperative network device earns a cooperative-device transmission opportunity of the transmission opportunities; and;
after earning the cooperative-device transmission opportunity, the cooperative network device makes a determination of whether a cut-in signal from another network device is observed in a front duration of a predetermined time slot, and then determines whether to abandon or defer a right to start transmitting in a back duration of the predetermined time slot according to the determination.