Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, apparatus and system to generate an interrupt by monitoring an external interface
- Patent Title (中): 通过监视外部接口产生中断的方法，装置和系统
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Application No.: US11025381Application Date: 2004-12-28
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Publication No.: US07386640B2Publication Date: 2008-06-10
- Inventor: David C. Lee , Steve Kulick , Sivakumar Radhakrishnan
- Applicant: David C. Lee , Steve Kulick , Sivakumar Radhakrishnan
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agent David L. Guglielmi
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00
Abstract:
In some embodiments, a method, apparatus and system to generate an interrupt by monitoring an external interface are presented. In this regard, an interrupt agent is introduced to communicate over a serial interface with an input/output (I/O) extender and to save a relevant status of the I/O extender in a memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060143351A1 Method, apparatus and system to generate an interrupt by monitoring an external interface Public/Granted day:2006-06-29
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