Apparatus and method for assigning address to scsi supported peripheral devices
CA 2018073 C · Owner: Osborn, Neal A. · Inventors: Newsom, Thomas H.; Marazas, Gerald A.; Dixon, Jerry D.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Apparatus for assigning addresses to devices connected to an SCSI bus. A second configure bus interconnects address assignable devices on the SCSI bus. The assignable devices may be used in a mixed system where some devices have fixed non-assignable addresses. The master device in the SCSI bus transmits configuration commands over the configuration bus and addresses for assignment over the SCSI bus. Acknowledgements are received back from a device which has accepted an address. Once configured with an address the device propagates subsequent configuration commands to an adjacent device.
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed June 1, 1990 and granted January 2, 1996. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 1, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 1, 2012.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.