Apparatus and method for coupling multiple peripheral devices to

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1997-06-30

1999-11-23

Shin, Christopher B.

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Peripheral monitoring

710 2, 710 8, 710 37, 710101, 710137, G06F 1300

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059918306

ABSTRACT:
A system for allowing a peripheral device to be inserted directly into a port of a computer system while the computer system is powered on. The insertion of a peripheral device into the computer system port is automatically detected, and a configuration operation is automatically performed when insertion of the peripheral device is detected. The system also allows a plurality of peripheral devices to be connected to a single port of a computer system by automatically determining the number of peripheral devices and assigning a unique address to each of the peripheral devices. The peripheral device may have a host port for communicating with the computer system, a slave port for connecting to a slave device, and a device manager which identifies if a slave device is connected.

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