Sampling detector

Claim 1

IN A DATA HANDLING SYSTEM, A COMMON SIGNALING CHANNEL, FIRST AND SECOND SIGNAL SOURCES FOR PROVIDING GROUPS OF SIGNAL AT FIRST AND SECOND PREDETERMINED BIT-PERSECOND RATES, RESPECTIVELY, TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEX MEANS COUPLED TO SAID SOURCES FOR APPLYING SIGNAL SAMPLES FROM SAID FIRST AND SECOND SIGNAL SOURCES TO SAID COMMON SIGNALING CHANNEL ONCE PER REPETITIVE TIME FRAME IN FIRST AND SECOND TIME SLOTS RESPECTIVELY COMMON DETECTING MEANS COUPLED TO SAID COMMON SIGNALLING CHANNEL FOR PROVIDING FIRST AND SECOND START SIGNALS IN SAID FIRST AND SECOND TIME SLOTS IN RESPONSE TO THE START OF A GROUP OF SIGNALS FROM SAID FIRST AND SECOND SOURCE, RESPECTIVELY COMMON COUNTING MEANS COUPLED TO SAID DETECTING MEANS AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND START SIGNALS FOR PRODUCING A FIRST AND SECOND SERIES OF INDICTIONS IN SAID FIRST AND SECOND TIME SLOTS, RESPECTIVELY, WHICH ARE INDICATIVE OF THE DURATION OF THE ELAPSED TIME, AS MEASURED IN TIME PERIODS COMPRISING A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF FRAME PERIODS, SUBSEQUENT TO THE GENERATION OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND START SIGNALS, RESPECTIVELY, A COMMON SIGNAL OUTPUT CHANNEL, A FIRST GROUP OF SAMPLING GATES COUPLING SAID COMMON SIG-