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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:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Horitio Lo, Milpitas, CA (US);
David Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Vicom Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710-5 ; 710 11 ; 710 30 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus implement a communications protocol whereby a host application program can communicate with a computer subsystem without the use of special driver software. In this way, the application program is able to invoke virtually any vendor-unique function on a compatible subsystem controller using only standard read/write system calls. This avoids platform dependency and greatly improves the portability of the application program.