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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:
Jan. 21, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark L Smith, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Simple Technology, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395750 ; 395281 ; 395822 ; 326 30 ; 333 32 ;
Abstract
A system which determines whether one of a plurality of peripheral devices on a SCSI bus is providing termination power to a bus terminator and provides termination power from a power supply associated with a host device only when none of the peripheral devices are providing termination power. The system is further configured to only provide termination power from the host device when information signals are likely to be present on the information bus. Specifically, the system only provides termination power when the host device seeks access to the information bus to thereby limit consumption of the host device's power supply.