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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. 18, 2003
Filed:
May. 15, 1998
Donald E. Small, Merritt Island, FL (US);
Harris-Exigent, Inc., Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
A method and interface system for hosting a logical address based network protocol suite on a high speed serial bus network which has operatively connected thereto a plurality of network devices, each defining a node with a dynamically variable physical address. The system includes a software interface for monitoring the network to identify the occurrence of a bus reset event which has the potential to change a physical address assigned to the nodes; for receiving an updated physical address provided by the network devices as a result of the bus reset event; computer memory for storing therein an updated physical address together with a corresponding device logical address in an address resolution table. The address resolution table provides a mapping between the physical address and the logical address assigned to each of the devices on the network. The interface accesses the address resolution table upon receipt of a data packet to be transmitted to determine an updated physical address for one of the devices based upon its logical address.
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