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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:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2009
Applicant:
Yong Xin Xu, Nanjing, CN;
Inventor:
Yong Xin Xu, Nanjing, CN;
Assignee:
Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, systems, apparatuses and program products are disclosed for communications such as may be used for debugging computers and similar electronic products at a level suitable for low level firmware. This may find application, for example, in environments after cache initialization around the time of memory bring up or motherboard device enumeration but including durability into and beyond software loading. GPIO (General Purpose input/output) connections may be used for communication that may, for some purposes, be regarded as half-duplex but without necessarily being anisochronous.