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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:
Dec. 19, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1999
Paul Austin, Austin, TX (US);
David Fuller, Austin, TX (US);
Kurt M. Carlson, Austin, TX (US);
Chris Mayer, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Rogers, Austin, TX (US);
Joe Savage, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Brian Sierer, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Austin, Austin, TX (US);
David Fuller, Austin, TX (US);
Kurt M. Carlson, Austin, TX (US);
Chris Mayer, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Rogers, Austin, TX (US);
Joe Savage, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Brian Sierer, Austin, TX (US);
National Instruments Corporation, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for automatically generating URLs which reference one or more data sources or data targets connected to a computer. The data sources/targets may be of any type including files, http servers, ftp servers, hardware devices, etc. The generated URLs may be used together with a system such as the Data Socket system to seamlessly read data from disparate data source types or write data to disparate data target types without having to manually perform configuration, connection operations, data format conversion, etc. The URLs are generated automatically and contain all the information necessary for accessing the data source/target. This greatly abstracts a user or application from the I/O process.