Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Digital data processing system initialization or configuration
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-17
2010-06-15
Elamin, Abdelmoniem (Department: 2116)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Digital data processing system initialization or configuration
C713S002000, C710S301000, C710S315000, C710S316000, C711S115000, C235S492000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07739487
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for booting a host device(s) from a peripheral device(s), via an interface, such as an MMC/SD interface, with power terminals, a data bus with data bus terminals, a clock line with a clock terminal and a command line with command terminal. Power is provided to the power terminals, and the command terminal of the MMC/SD or analogous interface is set during power-up to low. The data bus is monitored for a start bit of data transmission.
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Ahvenainen Marko
Mylly Kimmo
Elamin Abdelmoniem
Hollingsworth & Funk LLC
Nokia Corporation
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