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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2016
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nivedita Aggarwal, Bangalore, IN;

Reuven Rozic, Binyamina, IL;

Amir Levy, Jerusalem, IL;

Chia-Hung Kuo, Folsom, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate communication with electronic devices supported by an interface specification and electronic devices unsupported by the interface specification. An example apparatus includes a first firmware interface to facilitate communication between an operating system and a first electronic device, the first electronic device supported in an interface specification. The example apparatus includes a second firmware interface instantiated to facilitate communication with a second electronic device that is not supported in the interface specification, the second firmware interface configured to communicate with the first firmware interface to route communication between the operating system and the second electronic device via the first firmware interface and the second firmware interface.


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