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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:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vam Chang, Taipei, TW;
Kingboard Ma, Shang Hai, CN;
Assignee:
Inventec Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ; G06F 1/312 ; G06F 1/338 ; G06F 1/300 ; G06F 1/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ; G06F 1/312 ; G06F 1/338 ; G06F 1/300 ; G06F 1/24 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a sound blaster interface card auto-detection method, which is applicable to all kinds of brands of sound blaster interface card supplied in the market. The present invention enables a computer system to automatically detect the indexes of the Connecting Port (PORT or Base Port), Interrupt Request (IRQ) and Direct Memory Access Channel (DMA) of a sound blaster interface card inserted therein and to activate the sound blaster interface card after receiving said indexes.