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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:
Jan. 29, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2009
Applicants:

Michael J. Espig, Newberg, OR (US);

Zhen Fang, Portland, OR (US);

Ravishankar Iyer, Hillsboro, OR (US);

David J. Harriman, Portland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Michael J. Espig, Newberg, OR (US);

Zhen Fang, Portland, OR (US);

Ravishankar Iyer, Hillsboro, OR (US);

David J. Harriman, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

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

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for handling a registration message received from a host processor, where the registration message delegates a poll operation with respect to a device from the host processor to another component. Information from the message may be stored in a poll table, and the component may send a read request to poll the device and report a result of the poll to the host processor based on a state of the device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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