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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. 10, 2007
Filed:
May. 20, 2003
Applicants:
Douglas L. Sandy, Chandler, AZ (US);
Mark S. Lanus, Tempe, AZ (US);
Robert C. Tufford, Chandler, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Douglas L. Sandy, Chandler, AZ (US);
Mark S. Lanus, Tempe, AZ (US);
Robert C. Tufford, Chandler, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A bladed architecture, backplane-based network () having N payload slots () includes an N/2 slot switch module (), wherein the N/2 slot switch module is reconfigurable to one of a left-hand slot switch configuration () and a right-hand slot switch configuration (), and wherein the N/2 slot switch module is coupled to N/2 of the N payload slots such that the bladed architecture, backplane-based network is in a sub-optimal configuration ().