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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1998
Applicants:
Samuel Steven Allison, Fuquay-Varina, NC (US);
Kenneth James Barker, Cary, NC (US);
Inventors:
Samuel Steven Allison, Fuquay-Varina, NC (US);
Kenneth James Barker, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Stations in a communications network are awakened by matching a pattern received from the communications network with patterns in the stations. When a match occurs, the stations are awakened. The patterns are arranged contiguously on word boundaries. A nibble (4 bits) in a mask word identifies the part of the pattern word to be used in the comparison.