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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. 08, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 ;
Abstract
A method of transferring data from a source device to a destination device via a source-control device connected to the source device and a destination-control device connected to the destination device includes the steps of transmitting a data-transfer-request signal from the source device to the source-control device, transmitting a data-transfer-acknowledge signal from the source-control device to the source device in response to the data-transfer-request signal, and transmitting a data-transfer-request signal from the source-control device to the destination-control device concurrently with the transmission of the data-transfer-acknowledge signal.