Patents Assigned to National Semicondoctor Corporation
  • Apparatus and method for initializing a universal serial bus device
    Patent number: 6415343
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dynamically assigning and enabling a unique functional address for a Universal Serial Bus device. A host assigns the unique functional address during a control transaction. The Universal Serial Bus device disables the default address and enables the unique functional address during a status stage of the control transaction to avoid an error window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: National Semicondoctor Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Fensore, Kent Bruce Waterson, Gregory Lewis Dean, Robert Macomber