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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:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2002
Applicant:
Charles William Thiesfeld, Lakeville, MN (US);
Inventor:
Charles William Thiesfeld, Lakeville, MN (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/368 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of communicating between an initial device and a target device connected by a plurality of intermediate segments in a distributed arbitration system is provided. The method includes establishing an arbitration timer for a communication request by the initial device. Furthermore, use of each of the intermediate segments is arbitrated based on the arbitration timer.