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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. 21, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard R Garcia, Plano, TX (US);
Gabriel G Suranyi, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
714745 ; 714 22 ;
Abstract
For use in a module, a redundancy detection circuit for, and method of, determining whether a predetermined adequate redundancy exists when the module is present in a system. In one embodiment, the module includes: (1) a sensor, associated with the module, that receives a signal that is a function of a number of modules present in the system and (2) a calculation circuit, coupled to the sensor, that determines from the signal whether a surplus capacity of the module provides at least the predetermined adequate redundancy for the system.