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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. 12, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brian J Schuh, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709239 ; 710 38 ;
Abstract
A network system in which data is transferred through a bypass circuit which extends between the ends of a branch and becomes active when all the disk drives in the branch are inactivate, rather than the data being transferred through bypass circuits individually associated with the disk drives and which become active when the disk drives are inactive.