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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. 24, 2007
Filed:
May. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Jason Seung-min Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jason Seung-Min Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/38 (2006.01); H03K 19/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention permits an I/O port to be used with a variety of different I/O devices, regardless of their device type implementation, such as tri-state I/O devices, pull-up I/O devices, or pull-down I/O devices. Thus, one set of pins may be used for various different I/O devices.