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(12) United States Patent
(10) Patent N0.: (45) Date of Patent:
Nakatsugawa (54)
COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND GATEWAY USED FOR THE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
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(75) Inventor: Yoshinori Nakatsugawa, ShiZuoka-ken JP
( ) (73) Assignee: Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Primary Examiner—Alpus H. Hsu (74) Attorney) Agent) 0" Fi"m—Finnegan, Henderson, FaraboW, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
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When data is exchanged betWeen a pair of LANs (3, 5) via
ABSTRACT
a pair of route hubs (RH4, RH6), one of the route hubs
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in a clockwise direction, assigns an address to each route
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hub (RH) and each node terminal (N), based on an address
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(RH4) sends an address assignment frame to a ?rst LAN (3)
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value, sequentially from the route hub (RH1) to route hub RH4) ’ and sends the address assignment frame ’ Which has (
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’ ( ) Int. Cl.7 ....................... .. H04L 12/28; H04L 12/66; G06F 15/16 US. Cl. ..................... .. 370/392; 370/401; 709/238;
been returned, to the other route hub (RH6) of the pair. The other route hub (RH6) assigns the address to itself based on the address value contained in the received address assign ment frame, sends the address assignment frame to a second
709/245; 709/249
LAN (5) in the clockwise direction, assigns the address to
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Field of Search ............................... .. 370/229, 230,
each route hub (RH) and each node terminal (N), based on
370/231, 235, 254, 351, 389, 392, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405; 709/238, 245, 246,
the address value, sequentially from the route hub (RH7), and returns the address assignment frame, Which has been
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returned, to the route hub (RH4). Thus, addresses are
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automatically assigned to each route hub (RH) and node terminal Upon receiving communication data to be sent to a destination, each of the pair of route hubs (RH4, RH6)
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selects a route via Which the communication data is to be Sent, and for Sending the Communication data to the desti nation via the selected route.
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