Method, system, and apparatus for eliminating bus...

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2006-05-02

2006-05-02

Perveen, Rehana (Department: 2111)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Intrasystem connection

System configuring

C710S008000, C710S300000

Reexamination Certificate

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07039733

ABSTRACT:
A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for eliminating bus renumbering in a computer system are provided. A pool of bus numbers are reserved for each device within a computer system capable of hosting a bridge device. Upon startup of the computer system, each of the buses present in the computer are assigned unique bus numbers. Buses present in the system as a result of a bridge device are allocated bus numbers from the pool of bus numbers reserved for the device upon which the bridge device resides.

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