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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1997
Paul F Beard, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mark D Moore, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Compaq Computer Corp., , US;
Abstract
A system for allowing a peripheral device to be inserted directly into a port of a computer system while the computer system is powered on. The insertion of a peripheral device into the computer system port is automatically detected, and a configuration operation is automatically performed when insertion of the peripheral device is detected. The system also allows a plurality of peripheral devices to be connected to a single port of a computer system by automatically determining the number of peripheral devices and assigning a unique address to each of the peripheral devices. The peripheral device may have a host port for communicating with the computer system, a slave port for connecting to a slave device, and a device manager which identifies if a slave device is connected.