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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. 07, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brian C Edem, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard P Helliwell, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
John T Johnston, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard F Lary, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Assignees:
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 54 ; 371 48 ; 371 671 ; 3401462 ;
Abstract
A data integrity checking system and method for use with a sort accelerator having a rebound sorter as a merger. The data integrity checking system checks the integrity of data which has been processed by a sorting system wherein unsorted data has been received from and sorted data has been delivered to a host processor. Parity valves and checksum schemes are used. Sorted data is also checked for proper sorting by a sort order checker.