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Inventor

Charles P. Thacker

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1977

Associated with

Years active

1977

Total patents

1

Most recent

1977

Frequent collaborator

Robert M. Metcalfe

Domains

telecommunicationssoftwareconsumer_electronicssemiconductors

Activity by decade

1970s
1

Patents

1

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1977

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US 4063220·1977·Xerox Corp

How Multiple Computers Share a Network Cable Without Crashing

This patent describes how multiple computers can share a single communication cable by listening for other transmissions and stopping their own if a collision occurs, then trying again later.

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