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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:
Dec. 23, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Sherman S Pun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395681 ;
Abstract
A device driver interface for achieving portability of device drivers for operating with full source level compatibility across multiple instruction set architectures and platforms. The device driver interface makes transparent to the driver the actual data access mechanisms of the host computers on which the driver is compiled.