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  <dc:title>Method and Apparatus for Distributed Queue Digital Data Transmission Employing Variable Length Data Slots</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Campbell, Graham M.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Wu, Chien-ting</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>A data transmission and receiving network includes a plurality of nodal apparatus for sending and receiving digital data in variable length data slots. The nodal apparatus includes a storage device for maintaining a conflict resolution queue representative of nodal apparatus sending simultaneous requests for transmission causing a collision during a control minislot. The nodal apparatus also includes a transmission queue stored in the storage device. The transmission queue is indicative of nodal apparatus that have successfully transmitted during a minislot and are thus queued for transmission of data in data slots. The apparatus includes a transmitter for sending a variable length data slot signal comprising digital data in response to the state of the transmission queue. The nodal apparatus also includes a receiver for receiving a variable length data slot signal.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology</dc:description>
  <dc:description>United States Patent</dc:description>
  <dc:date>2009-05-11</dc:date>
  <dc:date>2001-08-21</dc:date>
  <dc:type>Patent</dc:type>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>islandora:9780</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>6,278,713</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2430</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:rights>No Copyright - United States</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
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