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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:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul E Greaves, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Assignee:
Play, Inc., Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713-1 ; 709301 ; 710104 ; 710-8 ; 710 10 ;
Abstract
A system and method for identifying and configuring modules within a digital electronic device comprises a coordinator device coupled to the electronic device, functional modules coupled to the coordinator device for performing selected device functions, identifiers each uniquely associated with a corresponding one of the functional modules and configuration drivers which each correspond to one of the identifiers, whereby the coordinator may read the identifiers and execute the corresponding configuration drivers to configure the functional modules.