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- From: dkw@wolferts.ka.sub.org (Klaus Wolferts)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Question on Hayes ad in Network World magazine
- Message-ID: <dkw02545920811195046@wolferts.ka.sub.org>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 10:17:11 GMT
- References: <9209030703.AA17256@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Organization: Ing'Buro f. EDV + Elektronik, D-7500 Karlsruhe 31
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- geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
- >
- > SHUTTERS_WC@TOTO.LAAFB.AF.MIL writes:
- >
- > > 3. What does the Hayes Patent 4,549,302 cover?
- >
- > The use of guard times around an escape sequence to permit a device to
- > recognize the difference between the user trying to signal the modem and a
- > data transmission which simply looks like the escape sequence. This guard
- > time is critical to making a modem 'invisible' to the data stream though, as
- > I said, it isn't a 100% guarantee.
- >
- Is that the only feature which is covered by that patent?
-
- Whats about the transferring of those 3 escape characters to the line?
-
- I remember a discussion several weeks ago in this news group on TIES
- (Time Independant Escape Sequence) modems (Re: "Boom! you are dead"
- or something like that) where the following feature was mentioned:
-
- The modem holds back the escape character(s) when the escape
- sequence recognition mechanism is triggered.
- If it succeeds, the escape sequence is "stolen" by the modem,
- switched to command mode and answers with OK.
- If it fails, the held back character(s) are forwarded to the line.
-
- That should be the normal way to handle the escape sequence in order
- to behave well in conflict situations, where the data contains the
- escape sequence.
-
- Now with my Digicom Scout Plus I learned, (as the docs tell) that
- you have to wait for the escape guard time (S12), but it forwards the
- escape characters anyway.
-
- Wolfgang Henke told me, that the Scout Plus is a TIES modem, but I
- think that does not imply the forwarding or removal of the escape
- characters. Or is that mechanism covered from the hayes patent too?
-
- Perhaps Mr. Nixon may tell us more about the features that patent
- covers?
-
- Klaus
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