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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:
Nov. 08, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2002
Applicants:
Chadwick W. Stryker, Albany, OR (US);
James P. Dickie, Corvallis, OR (US);
Steven L Fogle, Corvallis, OR (US);
Inventors:
Chadwick W. Stryker, Albany, OR (US);
James P. Dickie, Corvallis, OR (US);
Steven L Fogle, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F013/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electronic device has a host processor system having an AT Attachment (ATA) mass storage interface having a single channel. The electronic device further has at least three mass storage device ports that are capable of accepting ATA mass storage devices. A method for interfacing the mass storage devices to the ATA single channel interface provides the host processor access to all the ATA mass storage devices.