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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:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
May. 20, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Remigius G. Shatas, Huntsville, AL (US);
Robert R. Asprey, Harvest, AL (US);
Christopher L. Thomas, Madison, AL (US);
Greg O'Bryant, Madison, AL (US);
Greg Luterman, Lenexa, KS (US);
Jeffrey E. Choun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Avocent Corporation, Huntsville, AL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/342 ; G06F 1/314 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/342 ; G06F 1/314 ;
Abstract
A network interface is described in which a single computer bus is split over a long distance into two or more inter-communicating buses. On one bus, processing and applications are provided and on the other remote bus, peripheral and local controllers are provided. The buses communicate through a series of: bridge, FPGA, FPGA and bridge. Between the FPGAs, a communication path provides long distance communication.