公开(公告)号：US07162581B2

公开(公告)日：2007-01-09

申请号：US11320527

申请日：2005-12-28

申请人： Thomas John Newman ,  Leonard Ott ,  Robert John Miller ,  Bobby Dale Gifford ,  Larry Lovercheck

发明人： Thomas John Newman ,  Leonard Ott ,  Robert John Miller ,  Bobby Dale Gifford ,  Larry Lovercheck

IPC分类号： G06F13/10 ,  G06F12/02

CPC分类号： G06F13/385 ,  G06F13/387

摘要： The present invention permits deferring the final provisioning of the Card Information Structure (CIS) in the attribute memory space of expansion cards (or modules) for portable hosts. This enables expansion cards to be distributed, sold, and installed by their end-users prior to the final provisioning, which is performed during their initial use. A temporary default CIS image is provided that permits baseline functionality of the expansion card with a host device. Providing the default CIS data enables provisional installation and operation of the card in the host, including accessing the card by way of default card services and socket software layers, as provided in the standard software environment of the host. The provisional operation enables higher level software to program the final CIS values in the peripheral controller internal CIS data-structure, EEPROM on the card, or any combination of the two.

摘要翻译： 本发明允许在用于便携式主机的扩展卡（或模块）的属性存储器空间中延迟卡信息结构（CIS）的最终提供。 这使得扩展卡在最终配置之前由最终用户进行分发，销售和安装，这在最初的使用期间执行。 提供了允许扩展卡与主机设备的基线功能的临时默认CIS映像。 提供默认的CIS数据可以在主机中临时安装和操作卡，包括通过主机的标准软件环境中提供的默认卡服务和套接字软件层访问卡。 临时操作使更高级别的软件可以对外围控制器内部CIS数据结构，卡上的EEPROM或两者的任意组合对最终的CIS值进行编程。