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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. 09, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul C Stanley, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Rahul V Lakdawala, Cypress, TX (US);
Walter G Fry, Spring, TX (US);
Richard Churchill, Spring, TX (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710 10 ; 710-2 ; 710-8 ; 710 62 ; 710101 ; 710102 ; 710103 ; 710104 ; 709301 ; 709302 ;
Abstract
A method for supporting a USB-based Device Bay Controller without a hardware interface between the DBC and the 1394 bus, by intercepting 1394 GUID queries in software and returning a stored GUID which is set by the manufacturer to be correct for the hardware actually present.