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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:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Dale Appel, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Gricell Co, Austin, TX (US);
Franklin Mark Liu, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
Two daughter cards connected by bus connectors to a motherboard have integrated circuits connected to each other and to an integrated circuit on the motherboard through a bus network. The bus network is also connected by a bus cable connected at the top of the two daughter cards so as to form a loop within the bus network.