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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. 17, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1996
Hiroyuki Ohgaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A polling method and apparatus for polling from a control unit to a plurality of controlled units using an information collecting command in order to collect status information from each controlled unit in a digital processing system by continuously monitoring the status of the controlled units. The apparatus determines, in the control unit, whether there is any one of the controlled units which is not mounted or has failed. Status information is returned from each controlled unit to the control unit when the control unit determines a normal state of the controlled unit. Response information is returned from the controlled unit to the control unit instead of the status information when the control unit determines an abnormal state of the controlled unit.
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