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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. 30, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
James K. Gehrke, Lake in the Hills, IL (US);
Daniel R. Schroeder, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/700 ;
Abstract
An apparatus (,), comprising multiple modular electrical devices (,) and an optical signal source (,), all coupled to an optical communication resource (,), and method for the interconnection of the multiple modular electrical devices (,) provides for a first modular electrical device (,) of the multiple modular electrical devices to locate a second modular electrical device (,) of the multiple modular electrical devices and to selectively address a communication among multiple modular electrical devices (,).