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EP About this file: EP0512685

EP0512685 - Quadrature bus protocol for carrying out transactions in a computer system [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  27.10.2000
Database last updated on 02.11.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip27.10.2000No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 13.12.2000 [2000/50]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1112 / US
[N/P]
Former [1992/46]For all designated states
Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, California 94304 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Brockmann, Russell C.
3914 Sunlight Court
Fort Collins, CO 80525 / US
02 / Johnson, Leith L.
2837 Eastborough Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80525 / US
03 / Jaffe, William S.
5238 Apple Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80525 / US
[1992/46]
Representative(s)Colgan, Stephen James, et al
CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2RA / GB
[N/P]
Former [1992/46]Colgan, Stephen James, et al
CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2RA / GB
Application number, filing date92303034.006.04.1992
[1992/46]
Priority number, dateUS1991069426529.04.1991         Original published format: US 694265
[1992/46]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0512685
Date:11.11.1992
Language:EN
[1992/46]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0512685
Date:29.12.1999
Language:EN
[1999/52]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP24.08.1992
ClassificationIPC:G06F12/08
[1992/46]
CPC:
G06F15/17 (EP,US); G06F9/38 (KR); G06F12/0831 (EP,US);
G06F13/368 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1992/46]
TitleGerman:Quadraturbusprotokoll zum Ausführen von Transaktionen in einer Rechneranordnung[1992/46]
English:Quadrature bus protocol for carrying out transactions in a computer system[1992/46]
French:Protocole de bus en quadrature pour conduire des transactions dans un système d'ordinateur[1992/46]
Examination procedure18.01.1993Examination requested  [1993/11]
02.11.1995Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M08)
10.06.1996Reply to a communication from the examining division
10.07.1997Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
13.01.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
15.02.1999Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
23.06.1999Communication of intention to grant the patent
12.07.1999Fee for grant paid
12.07.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)30.09.2000No opposition filed within time limit [2000/50]
Fees paidRenewal fee
18.03.1994Renewal fee patent year 03
24.03.1995Renewal fee patent year 04
25.03.1996Renewal fee patent year 05
24.03.1997Renewal fee patent year 06
26.03.1998Renewal fee patent year 07
19.03.1999Renewal fee patent year 08
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Documents cited:Search[A]US4449183  (FLAHIVE BARRY J [US], et al);
 [Y]WO9000282  (WANG LABORATORIES [US])
 [YP]  - IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN vol. 34, no. 1, June 1991, NEW YORK, US 'Fixed-length pipelined-bus-protocol for snoop cache'
 [Y]  - COMPCON 89 3 March 1989, SAN FRANCISCO, US pages 72 - 80; P. WOODBURY ET AL.: 'Shared memory multiprocessors : The right approach to parallel processing'
 [Y]  - 1987 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER DESIGN: VLSI IN COMPUTERS AND PROCESSORS 8 October 1987, NEW YORK, US pages 168 - 172; D. ALPERT ET AL.: 'Architecture of the NS32532 Microprocessor'
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