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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:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brett Louis Lindsley, Wheaton, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710 19 ; 710 15 ; 710 17 ; 710 18 ; 710 29 ; 710 48 ; 710 52 ; 710263 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method, device and article of manufacture for efficient transfer of data items between a host processor and an external device. The host processor is coupled to external queue pointers and is used for queuing a plurality of data items and transferring the plurality of data items to the external device using an interrupt service routine unit. The external device is coupled to the host processor and is used for storing and incrementing or decrementing the external queue pointers, and processing the data items.