> > There are historically numerous systems which derive slaves'
addresses
> > by polling and random duration backoff on collision algorithms, or
> > which even assign addresses to unruly addressless rabble at start up
> > using similar means.
>
> Ethernet on a coax comes to mind surely as a famous "1 wire"
multi-party
> half duplex bus with all unique but unknown addresses (MAC) and
10Mbps.

But this doesn't power the remote devices over the same wire, which I
suspect is a feature of the 1-wire system that they want to protect (I
haven't checked the patent to see if this is part of the description).
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