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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:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1997
Brian M. Bass, Apex, NC (US);
Dennis Albert Doidge, Apex, NC (US);
Edward Hau-chun Ku, Cary, NC (US);
Scott J. Lemke, Raleigh, NC (US);
Joseph M. Rash, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Loren Blair Reiss, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for coupling a local area network to a wide area network utilizes a PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) bus to couple a PCI interface to a PCI network interface card, which is coupled to the wide area network. The wide area network could be an asynchronous transfer mode network or a high bandwidth ethernet. If the PCI network interface card operates as a PCI master, then the PCI interface will operate as a PCI slave. If the PCI network interface card operates as a PCI slave, then the PCI interface of the invention will operate as a PCI master.