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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. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2002
Applicants:
Atsushi Watanabe, Kawasaki, JP;
Noburu Rinoie, Kawasaki, JP;
Takamitsu Kobayashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes one or more function blocks, a nonvolatile memory unit which stores therein coded license information, and a decoder circuit which decodes the license information stored in the nonvolatile memory unit, and makes one of the function blocks either usable or unusable depending on the decoded license information.