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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000

Filed:

Jul. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Do Young Kim, Daejeon, KR;

Sang Joong Kim, Daejeon, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710113 ; 710113 ; 710120 ; 710244 ;
Abstract

A cell bus arbitration device and method arbitrating a cell bus transmitting data in a certain size of packet unit is disclosed. The cell bus arbitration device comprises a filter for outputting request signals not to be masked by using service mask data, a decoder for outputting only the highest priority request signal, a latching and counting unit latching and counting the priority signal, a service flag for outputting service mask data according to the bus grant signals, and a detector for detecting the state of the bus request signals and controlling the service flag unit. The device is used for arbitrating a cell bus for transmitting data in packet unit.


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