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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:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2004
Applicant:
Bernd Elend, Hamburg, DE;
Inventor:
Bernd Elend, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Described is a method of monitoring the communication in a group of data processing units, wherein a data processing unit transmits data signals to other data processing units for carrying out certain operations. The remarkable thing about the invention is that, upon reception of a data signal from the transmitting data processing unit, every other data processing unit answers both the transmitting data processing unit and the other data processing units by way of an appropriate acknowledgement.