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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:
Sep. 19, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anton Goeppel, Burgau, DE;
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395650 ; 395281 ; 395284 ; 364D / ; 3642802 ; 3642625 ; 364254 ; 3649752 ; 3649601 ; 364957 ;
Abstract
A method of configuring a plurality of work station units, in which the units share common addresses. The units are activated one at a time with the activated unit being given configuration data corresponding to the common addresses. In this manner, an unlimited number of units of a work station can be configured with a limited number of I/O addresses.