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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:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Applicants:
Chris Dodd, Portland, OR (US);
Dave Dunning, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Chris Dodd, Portland, OR (US);
Dave Dunning, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A media controller is reconfigurable to handle different formats and types of data. In one embodiment, the invention includes a media access controller coupled to a higher layer to exchange data with the higher layer, a physical layer connector coupled to the media access controller to exchange data with the media access controller and having an external physical interface to exchange data with an external device, and a configuration block to reconfigure the media access controller based on the format of the data of the external device.