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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2010
Applicants:
Wee Hoo Cheah, Bayan Lepas, MY;
Chun Hung Pang, Bukit Mertajam, MY;
Kuan Loon Tan, Georgetown, MY;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/36 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4031 (2013.01);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a serial bus interface circuit includes at least two serial ports, a memory to store a relationship between serial bus addresses and the at least two serial ports, and a controller to control access to the at least two serial ports. The controller may be configured to receive an access request for a serial bus address, determine a first port of the at least two serial ports corresponding to the serial bus address using the relationships stored in the memory, and disable a second port of the at least two serial ports. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.