MULTI-POINT TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• Main Authors: SEKINE KATSUMI, ISHIBASHI RYOICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.02.1994
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

PURPOSE:To allow a master terminal equipment to execute the multi-point 2-way communication economically to the utmost with respect to a slave terminal equipment with respect to the multi-point 2-way communication system in a communication network accommodating the master terminal equipment and plural slave terminal equipments. CONSTITUTION:A communication network 100 is provided with an outgoing multi-point channel setting means 110 which sets a multi-point channel through which the information sent from an information transmission means 201 of a master terminal equipment 200 is transferred to each information reception means 302 of plural slave terminal equipments 300 in parallel designated by the master terminal equipment, an incoming packet transfer means 120 transferring a packet sent from a packet transmission means 303 of plural slave terminal equipments designated by the master terminal to a packet reception means 203 of the master terminal equipment, and an incoming individual channel setting means 130 which sets an individual channel through which the information sent from the information transmission means 301 of the slave terminal equipment designated by the master terminal equipment to the information reception means 202 of the master terminal equipment upon the request from the master terminal equipment.