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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:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroshi Kume, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713-2 ; 710-8 ; 713100 ;
Abstract
Control programs for a peripheral device to be installed, an identification program for identifying specifications of the peripheral device and a program for selecting the corresponding control program according to their identification are prepared and executed. Thus, since it is unnecessary to manage only the corresponding control program so as to be stored in a semiconductor device every specifications of the peripheral device, the fabrication of the semiconductor device is prevented from increasing in complexity.