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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Inventor:
Adam Jude Ahne, Lexington, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 13/362 (2006.01); G06F 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/362 (2013.01); G06F 1/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating an I2C slave having an I2C clock pin and an I2C data pin is disclosed. The method includes (a) receiving a command via the I2C clock pin and the I2C data pin, (b) driving the I2C data pin to logic low for a first duration, (c) not driving the I2C data pin to logic low for a second duration, and (d) repeatingly alternating (b) and (c) until a termination event occurs. (b) and (c) are not synchronized to transitions of the I2C clock pin. Other methods and systems are disclosed.