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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2016
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Douglas A. Yates, Spicewood, TX (US);
Jared Terry, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a communications bus, at least one target device communicatively coupled to the communications bus, and a plurality of master devices communicatively coupled to the communications bus and communicatively coupled to one another via a secondary arbitration connection. Each of the plurality of master devices may be configured to assert a respective secondary arbitration signal of the master device on the secondary arbitration connection to indicate ownership of the communications bus and deassert the respective secondary arbitration signal of the master device on the secondary arbitration connection to indicate non-ownership of the communications bus.