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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:
Aug. 27, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Demonder Chan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert B Fultz, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Baldev Krishan, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Novalink Technologies, Inc., Freemont, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ; H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375222 ; 34082544 ; 455 382 ;
Abstract
A computer peripheral is provided that combines the functionality of multiple devices, for example, a pager, a facsimile machine, and a data modem. The computer peripheral is designed as one or more separable modules, or functional components, including a module for interfacing the peripheral to a host computer. At least one of the functional components can be operated either as part of the computer peripheral, or may be separated from the remainder of the computer peripheral and used as a self contained functional module.