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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:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas M. Siep, Garland, TX (US);
Ronald E. Stafford, Wylie, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; G06F 1/5173 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; G06F 1/5173 ;
Abstract
A group of client calculators ( ) communicates by determining whether a aster calculator ( ) is a member of the group. If the master calculator ( ) is present, the client calculators ( ) determine whether the master calculator ( ) has allowed communication between the client calculators ( ). The client calculators may communicate if the master calculator ( ) is not present or if the master calculator ( ) is present and has allowed communications between other of the client calculators ( ).