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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2011
Applicants:

Roy W. Stedman, Austin, TX (US);

Andrew T. Sultenfuss, Leander, TX (US);

David Loadman, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Roy W. Stedman, Austin, TX (US);

Andrew T. Sultenfuss, Leander, TX (US);

David Loadman, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of enabling access to resources includes detecting an input to access a resource of a multi-mode processing module coupled to a host processor and a control module. The method can further include detecting an operating mode of the host processor and the control module and an availability of independent peripheral resources of the multi-mode processing module. Additionally, the method can enable the multi-mode processing module in response to the detecting the operating mode and the availability of the independent peripheral resources.


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