Patent ID: 6137803
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a communication system with a plurality of subscribers which are connected via respective interface circuits to a ring feeder, a method of transmitting in common digital source data and control data in a format which prescribes a pulsed sequence of individual bit groups of equal length, the method which comprises:transmitting data in bit groups of equal length and subdividing the bit groups into component bit groups each forming a data channel;assigning at least one of the data channels for control data which are transmitted in data packets including a destination address;providing an interface circuit of each subscriber with an address decoder and an instruction decoder;defining at least one of the subscribers with a special address by which a data packet received thereby is communicated directly to the instruction decoder in the interface circuit, and decoding, with the instruction decoder, bits of an instruction code contained in the data packet; anddirectly responding to an instruction in the instruction code and performing the instruction with the respective subscriber.