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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. 28, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1996
Paul William Coteus, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Daniel Willaim Johnson, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting the presence/absence of adapter cards such as memory modules and alike. The method and apparatus utilize adapter cards which have wrap around pins for coupling grounds thereto. This coupled ground is then used by a Ground Detection Circuit and combined with different signals emanating from the memory modules such that when one or more of the adapter cards are absent, a default value resulting from the absence of ground is used to indicate the missing adapter(s).
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