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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:
Aug. 03, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710263 ; 710264 ; 710268 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to handling an interrupt between the multiple interrupt generating resources for use in connection with a pended bus and a host system, in which there is disclosed a multiple interrupt controller using an intelligent priority-decision mechanism and control method thereof which makes possible to transmit various interrupt resources within the system that is connected to the pended bus toward the host system through one interrupt line among the bus.