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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:
Dec. 31, 2004
Applicants:
Everardo D. Ruiz, Beaverton, OR (US);
James Akiyama, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tom Willis, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Everardo D. Ruiz, Beaverton, OR (US);
James Akiyama, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tom Willis, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A central component of a processor based system, the central component including a processor and an optical interface to transmit data encoded as an optical signal to an optical interface of an external component of the processor based system, and to receive data encoded as an optical signal from the optical interface of the external component, the external component being one or more of an external peripheral device, a docking station, and a port replicator.