Patent ID: 7631110
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system comprising: one or more slave devices, each including an internal device ID; a master device configured to broadcast a plurality of messages for a plurality of potential slave devices to initiate an address assignment operation, wherein each broadcast message includes at least a broadcast device ID and a linear bus address for a corresponding potential slave device; wherein, for each of the plurality of messages, each of the one or more slave devices is configured to determine whether the broadcast device ID included in the broadcast message matches the internal device ID associated with the slave device, and wherein, if the broadcast device ID included in the broadcast message matches the internal device ID associated with the slave device, the linear bus address included in the broadcast message is assigned to the slave device; wherein at least one of the potential slave devices is not comprised in the one or more slave devices, and wherein the linear bus address of the at least one of the potential slave devices is not assigned to the at least one of the potential slave devices.