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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. 25, 1997
Filed:
May. 18, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Pmc-Sierra, Inc., Burnaby, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371-51 ; 375347 ;
Abstract
A method of determining an error level of a data channel comprised of (a) receiving channel parity error data indicating when bit errors occur within a set of data carried on the channel (channel error events), successively integrating the channel error events data over successive accumulation periods, comparing the integrated channel error events data with a threshold, and indicating an alarm in the event the integrated channel error events data exceeds the threshold.