Patents by Inventor Anton Sauer

Anton Sauer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4832434
    Abstract: For the purpose of expanding the connection capacities of optical mixers in order to form a large network, series connections of such optical mixers are provided. In such networks, such series connections are formed of optical mixers which produce signal transmission paths which are identical to one another. No different signal transmission paths are present in the network overall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anton Sauer, Frank Schmidtke, Hans Thinschmidt
  • Patent number: 4516204
    Abstract: An optical passive bus control system includes an access coordinator and control unit which is connected to the passive network in the same manner as other connected devices of the network. The access coordinator control means is located spatially close to the optical mixer, over connecting light wave guides which are as short as possible. The access coordinator and control unit contains a collision recognition device for recognizing an access collision, and includes means for implementing an asynchronous access operating mode in response to a collision recognition. A switch means is provided for emitting a signal to the bus, signifying a change to a synchronous operating mode in which no access collisions can occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anton Sauer, Hans Thinschmidt
  • Patent number: 4446515
    Abstract: A passive bus system for decentrally structured multi-computer systems, particularly multi-microcomputer systems, allows execution of a bit-serial information exchange between the individual computers of the system achieving the bandwidth required for high transmission speeds with simple and reliable means, capable of decentralized monitoring and control. Exclusively optical transmission means is employed for all data exchange operations in a communications level shared by all of the function units of the multi-computer system, exclusively decentralized control devices are individually allocated to the function units for control of the bus system seizure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anton Sauer, Hans H. Witte