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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:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hsiang-Chan Chen, Taipei, TW;
Hui-Guo Tung, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Assignee:
Nexcom International Co. Ltd., Chung-Ho, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A processor card has a connector for plugging into a processor slot, signal switching circuitry electrically connected to the connector, power switching circuitry for controlling power to the processor card and a processor electrically connected to the signal switching circuitry. The power switching circuitry allows power to be selectively delivered to the processor card, and the signal switching circuitry enables the processor card to be hot swapped in and out of a PCI hot swap bus. The processor card works in conjunction with a similar processor card on the bus to perform the hot swap procedure.