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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:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Seong S Shin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Manpo Kwong, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709249 ;
Abstract
A computer system includes a mobile electronic device (30) which can be coupled to a network (18) either directly or through a receiving station (32) such as a docking station or a port replicator. A splitter module (36) is coupled to network connectors (14a and 14b) on both the mobile electronic device (30) and on the receiving station (32) to communicate with either network connector (14a or 14b).