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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:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/114 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/114 ;
Abstract
A method and device for initializing a plurality of fail silent computer nodes, coupled to a communication media; the plurality of fail silent computer nodes are adapted to exchange data frames via the communication media. The initialization is based upon sending an initialization word for synchronizing the plurality fail silent computer nodes. The transmission of an initialization word depends upon the state of the computer system and especially the status of the communication media.