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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:
Nov. 29, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Laurence E Bays, Whitehall, PA (US);
Walter P Hays, III, Rumson, NJ (US);
Assignee:
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375 38 ; 370 83 ;
Abstract
A data bus having a given size (e.g., 32 bits) provides for transfer of information between various logic and memory elements within, or among, one or more integrated circuits. Certain of the information transfers require the full information path, while others use only a portion (e.g., 8 or 16 bit transfers). To expedite the transfers of the smaller size words, a given word is replicated to fill up the full data base. This avoids the necessity of specifying the exact location of the smaller word on the data bus.