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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:
Jun. 08, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1996
William F Whiteman, Cypress, TX (US);
Alan L Goodrum, Tomball, TX (US);
B Tod Cox, Houston, TX (US);
Barry S Basile, Houston, TX (US);
Brian T Purcell, Tomball, TX (US);
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A computer system has a central processing unit and a bus. A first bus device and a second bus device are connected to the bus. A circuit is connected to configure the second bus device to be addressable by the central processing unit via the bus only by interaction with the first bus device. The first bus device may be an I.sub.2 O processor, and the second bus device may be an I.sub.2 O subordinate bus device.
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