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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. 29, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Jesse P. Arroyo, Rochester, MN (US);
Christopher J. Engel, Rochester, MN (US);
Kaveh Naderi, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/725 (2013.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/304 (2013.01); H04L 5/0092 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and a system for enabling communications on a signaling link include a first and a second device interconnected by the signaling link. The first device performs the method to acquire information from the second device. Based on the information acquired the first device determines to enable the signaling link for operational communications between the first device and the second device. A computer programming product instructs a computer to perform the method.