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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:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Colin N. B. Cook, Lindon, UT (US);
Warren K. Unice, Sandy, UT (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ; G06F 1/5177 ; G06F 1/210 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ; G06F 1/5177 ; G06F 1/210 ;
Abstract
A system, method, and apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention uses a processor to transfer information from a first device to a common area. The information is then transferred from the common area to a second device, thereby bypassing restrictions that may impede a transfer of the information directly from the first device to the second device. In an exemplary implementation, a PCI card initiates the transfer of information from a video frame buffer of an AGP video card to a memory buffer on the PCI card, using an interrupt handler loaded during configuration of the PCI bus.