Patent Document ID: 9734109
Application ID: 14494164

Base Claim:
1. A multi-channel, selectable identity tagging (MCSIT) data translator, comprising: a word monitor port configured to: receive a word generated by a specified one of a plurality of controllable components, wherein the word comprises a shared address that does not distinguish between the controllable components and that contains no identifying information for the specified controllable component; and generate a channel identifier (ID) uniquely identifying the specified controllable component and a word type corresponding to the word; and a channel ID tagger configured to determine whether to tag the word with the channel ID based on the word type and, based on the determination, to generate a processed word.

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Claim 2:
2. The MCSIT data translator of claim 1 , wherein: the word type comprises one of a command word, a status word and a data word, when the word type comprises one of a command word and a status word, the channel ID tagger is configured to determine to tag the word with the channel ID to generate the processed word, and when the word type comprises a data word, the channel ID tagger is configured to determine not to tag the word with the channel ID and to provide the word unmodified as the processed word.