Patent ID: 11866998
Assignee: ERDOS MILLER, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC E  H | IPC E  H

Claim 15:
16. One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processing devices to:
communicatively couple, using a mud pulse transmission mode, at least one of one or more uphole processors to at least one of one or more downhole processors included in a downhole device, wherein the at least one of the one or more uphole processors communicatively couples to the at least one of the one or more downhole processors through one or more transceivers included in a first component of a contact module, the first component is coupled to a second component of the contact module, and the second component comprises a terminator that electrically isolates an external contact of the contact module from an internal bus electrically connecting the contact module to the downhole device;
receive a handshake message sent by the at least one of the one or more downhole processors via an electromagnetic transmission mode different than the mud pulse transmission mode;
in response to successfully receiving the handshake message from the at least one of the one or more downhole processors via the electromagnetic transmission mode, transmit, while maintaining a channel with the at least one of the one or more downhole processors via the mud pulse transmission mode, a response message via the electromagnetic transmission mode to the at least one of the one or more downhole processors, wherein the response message causes the at least one of the one or more downhole processors to switch from the mud pulse transmission mode to the electromagnetic transmission mode.