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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:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard E White, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Dale R Buchholz, Palatine, IL (US);
Thomas A Freeburg, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
John M Kaczmarczyk, Niles, IL (US);
Rita O'Brien, Palatine, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 8511 ; 370 941 ;
Abstract
A common communication controller is linked to a plurality of peripheral devices by a network interface bus. Packets containing information is communicated between the controller and the peripherals over the bus which consists of a parallel packet bus and a plurality of control lines utilized to implement a communication protocol which increases the efficiencies of packet communications by the utilization of additional direct command lines between the communications controller and peripherals.