Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1995-11-07
1997-01-28
Lall, Parshotam S.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
395283, 364DIG1, G06F 1320
Patent
active
055985394
ABSTRACT:
A dockable computer system is capable of performing hot docking or warm docking. Hot docking refers to an ability to dock when the portable computer or docking station are running at full power. Warm docking refers to an ability to dock when the portable computer and docking station are running in a reduced power state. The dockable computer system employs a docking agent which is capable of quieting (rendering inactive) the buses of the portable computer and docking station in response to a notice signal. The notice signal is indicative of a change of states from the undocked state to the docked state or from the docked state to the undocked state. The notice signal can be provided from software, a user-actuated switch, or an infrared signal. The docking agent preferably quiets the system bus by idling the system bus or asserting bus ownership or bus mastership over the system bus. The docking agent is able to assert bus ownership or bus mastership over the system bus. Alternatively, the docking agent can perform a software idle subroutine or an interrupt subroutine which idles the system bus. Preferably, the system bus is idled by disabling clock signals to it. Preferably, the docking agent also removes bus ownership requests, interrupt requests, and DMA requests from the station bus and system bus.
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Gephardt Douglas D.
Swanstrom Scott
Advanced Micro Devices , Inc.
Lall Parshotam S.
Vu Viet
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