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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:
Dec. 04, 1984
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jack R Duke, San Marcos, CA (US);
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364900 ; 371 22 ;
Abstract
An activity detector device detects the presence or absence of information transmission over a serial data link between a computer system and a peripheral device. If a presence of a data signal exists as determined by the activity detector, the data signal is transmitted through to the computer system. If an absence of the data signal exists as determined by the activity detector, the input transmission link is decoupled from the computer system by the activity detector and places an all ones signal on the input line to the computer system consistent with the I/O protocol.