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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2004
Applicant:
Jeffrey D. Zolnowsky, Dakota Dunes, SD (US);
Inventor:
Jeffrey D. Zolnowsky, Dakota Dunes, SD (US);
Assignee:
Gateway Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F001/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a USB hub with soft select ports. A universal serial bus (USB) hub suitable for indicating a user-selectable number of ports may include a universal serial bus (USB) hub suitable for facilitating universal serial bus (USB) communication between a host and a device. A register suitable for storing an actual port value indicating a number of universal serial bus (USB) ports connected to the universal serial bus (USB) hub may be included, the actual port value suitable for being changed by a user.