Patent ID: 7689756

Claim:
An apparatus to facilitate communication over an Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) bus between a host device and a slave device, the apparatus comprising: a detection module to detect an incoming address of a data transmission at a translation device, the data transmission being received over an I2C bus from a host device, the data transmission intended for a first slave device connected to the translation device over an I2C bus, the first slave device sharing a common physical address with one or more other slave devices; a translation module to translate bits of the incoming address of the data transmission to an outgoing address, wherein the outgoing address matches the physical address in when the incoming address matches a translation device address of the translation device; and a communication module to communicate the outgoing address and data of the data transmission to the first slave device over the I2C bus, wherein the first slave device receives data preceded by the common physical address and ignores data preceded by an address other than the common physical address.