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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:
Jan. 11, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2001
Applicant:
William Lee Duncan, Berthoud, CO (US);
Inventor:
William Lee Duncan, Berthoud, CO (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 300 ; G06F 944 ; G06F 946 ; G06F 1300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one aspect of the invention is a method for robust device token management. In x+ bit computers using x bit device cards, tokens are used for managing communication requests from applications to a device by using x+ bit to x bit conversion techniques, accompanied by error checking.