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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:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brian Edem, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370445 ; 370404 ; 370524 ;
Abstract
A network communication system having at least two communication protocol modes, namely, a full power communication mode and a low power, limited communication mode. In the low power mode, the link is line powered and utilizes link pulses to represent binary 1s and idle line states to represent binary 0s so that low power mode communication is entirely compatible with all 10BASE T equipment on the network.