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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:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1994
John Lynch, San Jose, CA (US);
James B Nichols, San Mateo, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A low-cost yet high-performance, moderate bandwidth (up to 2 Mbps) global telecommunications interface to new and existing computers allows high-performance, low-cost telecommunications platforms to support global fax, data, voice, and other data streams in an intuitive way. The telecommunications interface provides a very low-cost solution to international connectivity for a broad class of existing computers while providing high-performance wide-area data transfer. Convenient and reliable global communications over the phone line may thus be achieved. From a rudimentary viewpoint, the telecommunications interface provides for an elegant, economical implementation of a fax/data modem. The telecommunications interface provides both a time-division multiplexed interface mode for constant bit rate communications and a packetized interface mode for variable bit rate communications. Multiple streams of digital and/or analog-derived data may be handled simultaneously. DMA and non-DMA interface mode am provided in order to achieve compatibility with a broad range of existing and new computers.
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