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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:
Jul. 29, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nirmal R Saxena, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
HaL Computer Systems, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341 50 ; 371 215 ; 371 211 ; 371 671 ; 341 94 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus detects whether more than one object has been selected from a set of objects. A unique code and an error code is coupled to objects in the set. At least one object is selected and the unique codes from the selected object are logically summed, as are the error codes from the selected objects. A test code is generated from the logically summed unique code and tested for equality with the logically summed error code to determine if more than one object was selected.