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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:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Timothy Lieber, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Timothy J Morris, Fleming, CO (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713-2 ; 710130 ; 710261 ; 710262 ;
Abstract
A field-reprogammable storage control device has a microcontroller, a write-protected memory which contains a boot code for the storage control device, a rewriteable memory for application code executable by the microcontroller, and a jump function located in both the write-protected memory and the rewriteable memory for movement between the write-protected memory and the rewriteable memory for recover after a processing interruption. The storage control device remains operational using the write-protected memory and the boot code while receiving a new application code from a remote site.