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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:
Jan. 31, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven J Byars, Chantilly, VA (US);
William N Carr, Newark, NJ (US);
Assignee:
GTE Communication Systems Corporation, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 94 ;
Abstract
The Arbitrated Bus Interface (ABI) is a set of custom LSI circuits which sends and receives minipackets of binary information to and from a data bus. The ABI performs arbitration, address recognition, and buffering required for transmitting and receiving mini-packets of information between the local packet bus and a microprocessor.