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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:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sung-Bin Hong, Seoul, KR;
Dong-Wook Suh, Sungnam, KR;
Assignee:
SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/340 ; G06F 1/338 ; G06F 1/107 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/340 ; G06F 1/338 ; G06F 1/107 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for guaranteeing the integrity of a PCI bus is disclosed. Multiple general purpose computers are connected using the PCI bus, and the PCI bus signals between or among them are compared. The present invention comprises general purpose computers, PCI monitoring cards, and network lines. An apparatus and a method for detecting faults are provided without adopting an exclusive CPU board or input/output bus to detect faults. A PCI monitoring card is appended to each general purpose computer system, and the computer systems are connected to electronic communication media.