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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. 20, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph N Butler, Galway, IE;
Mark A Hughes, Dublin, IE;
Neil O Fanning, Kilworth, IE;
Eugene O'Neill, Dublin, IE;
Una Quinlan, Dublin, IE;
Assignee:
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ; G01R 3/128 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ; G01R 3/128 ;
Abstract
A high speed link between chips and comprising a multiplicity of synchronous serial data channels includes an onboard detector for detecting an error rate for each channel. The transmitter and the receiver chips are configured in response to the detector to select the channel having the lowest error rate as the control channel and optionally to render at least the channel with the highest error rate inactive.