Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Input/output data processing
Patent
1996-11-13
2000-05-30
Sheikh, Ayaz R.
Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/
Input/output data processing
709222, 709223, 709224, 709225, 709226, 709227, 709250, 709251, 709300, 709301, 709302, 370402, 370473, 370 8513, 361686, G06F 300
Patent
active
060701994
ABSTRACT:
A system ling client computers, particularly client notebook computers, to communicate with a computer local area network (LAN) using infrared or other transparent links. The system includes a pseudo nic driver, transparent communication hardware, and a transparent link in a network interface unit. The pseudo nic driver hides the technical details of the transparent communications by presenting itself as a traditional nic driver to the client networking software. The network interface unit bi-directionally communicates via the transparent link with an, for example, an infrared enabled client computer and performs the necessary bridging between the low level infrared signals and traditional LAN system such as Ethernet.
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Axtman Daniel P.
Boobar Craig K.
Hutchison Vanessa L.
Jopson Charles M.
Extended Systems, Inc.
Jean Frantz Blanchard
Sheikh Ayaz R.
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