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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
May. 16, 2019
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Jason Alexander Harland, Seattle, WA (US);
Max Jesse Wishman, Seattle, WA (US);
Darin Lee Frink, Lake Tapps, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/18 (2006.01); G06F 13/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); G06F 1/185 (2013.01); G06F 13/12 (2013.01); G06F 13/4068 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method are described for configuring a motherboard using expansion cards plugged into motherboard slots. In particular, each of the expansion cards can include a control signal that is supplied to the motherboard and that can configure hardware positioned on the motherboard. In one embodiment, the configuration allows a communication path to be switched on to allow the expansion cards to cross communicate.