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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000

Filed:

Jan. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Allan M Kirson, Highland Park, IL (US);

Brian G Lucas, Barrington, IL (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
34082552 ; 34082507 ; 379350 ; 370383 ;
Abstract

The present invention provides a method of assigning a unique device identification to an electronic device coupled into a communication architecture. Once coupled into the communication architecture a piece of globally unique identifying data is retrieved and utilized to generate a device identification which identification is then assigned to the device.


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