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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:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
May. 31, 2002
Applicant:
Eric J. Luttmann, Star, ID (US);
Inventor:
Eric J. Luttmann, Star, ID (US);
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of communicating between a host and a USB-connected device is provided, in which a first and second phase of a communications protocol are asynchronously transmitted between the host and the device. A third phase of the communications protocol can also be asynchronously transmitted with the first and second phases. The USB-connected device can be a mass storage device and the communications protocol can be a bulk-only transport protocol having a command phase, a data phase, and a status phase.