Funai Electric Company Ltd.

James J Tocash

Michael Anthony Marra, Iii

Lucas David Barkley

Bruce Anthony DeBoard

Brian Jones

Bruce A DeBoard

Brian T Jones

Michael A Marra Iii

A location-based address adapter for use in a system to facilitate communication between a host computer and one peripheral device of a plurality of peripheral devices includes a body and an electrical circuit. The body is removably attached to one peripheral device at a time. The electrical circuit includes a communications interface circuit and an adapter memory circuit. The communications interface circuit has a respective pass-through wired connection between each of a plurality of input connectors and a plurality of output connectors to facilitate bi-directional communications between the host computer and the peripheral device. The adapter memory circuit stores a unique physical location address for association with a physical location associated with the peripheral device to which the body is attached. The unique physical location address is a non-network based address. The memory circuit has a memory connector to facilitate direct electrical communicative connection only with the respective peripheral device.

Location-based address adapter and system

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Lexington, KY, United States of America

James J Tocash