Patent ID: 7263030

Claim:
A method of remotely configuring a data packet routing pattern within a seismic survey transmission network comprising the steps of serially connecting a first plurality of seismic data acquisition modules by first receiver-line means to a base-line; serially connecting a second plurality of seismic data acquisition modules by second receiver-line means to a base-line; connecting a first seismic data acquisition module in said first receiver-line means to a second seismic data acquisition module in said second receiver-line means via a data transmission conduit; said seismic data acquisition modules generating and transmitting along said respective receiver-line means toward a data recording and control unit streams of digital data packets containing respective samples of seismic amplitude values corresponding to an instant in time; determining by said data recording and control unit a first data packet flow route toward said data recording and control unit from said seismic data acquisition modules; and, changing said first data packet flow route to a second data packet flow route by command signals directed from said data recording and control unit to transmit the data packet flow stream from a selected seismic data acquisition module in said first receiver line through seismic data acquisition modules in said second receiver line.