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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. 23, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christopher J Pettey, Houston, TX (US);
Dwight Riley, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710100 ; 710105 ; 710126 ; 710129 ; 710 52 ;
Abstract
A system and method of transferring data on a data bus is disclosed. The system includes a data bus agent having a storage medium connectable to a data bus and arranged to store data and a bus agent device adapted to receive data from the storage medium. The method includes driving a signal on a data bus by a first bus agent, sampling the signal at a second bus agent, storing the sampled signal in a storage medium associated with the second bus agent, and processing the stored signal at the second bus agent.