Docking system and method

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G06F 1/16 (2006.01) G06F 13/38 (2006.01) G06F 13/40 (2006.01)

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CA 2347896

A docking system can give a portable computer access over a first bus to a second bus. The first bus and the second bus are each adapted to separately connect to respective ones of a plurality of bus-compatible devices. The docking system has a link, together with a first and a second interface. The first interface is coupled between the first bus and the link. The second interface is coupled between the second bus and the link. The first interface and the second interface are operable to (a) send bus-related information through the link in a format different from that of the first bus and the second bus, and (b) allow the portable computer, communicating through the first bus, to individually address one or more of the bus-compatible devices on the second bus using on the first bus substantially the same type of addressing as is used to access devices on the first bus.

L'invention concerne un système d'accostage susceptible d'étendre l'accès à un ordinateur portable d'un premier bus à un second bus. Les premier et second bus sont adaptés pour être connectés séparément à une pluralité de dispositifs compatibles aux bus. Le système d'accostage comprend une liaison et des première et seconde interfaces, la première étant couplée entre le premier bus et la liaison et la seconde étant couplée entre le second bus et la liaison. Les deux interfaces servent à a) envoyer des informations en série via la liaison sous un format différent de celui des premier et second bus et b) permettre à l'ordinateur portable, par communication via le premier bus, d'accéder de manière individuelle aux périphériques compatibles aux bus sur le second bus en utilisant sur le premier bus pratiquement le même type d'accès que celui utilisé pour accéder aux périphériques se trouvant sur le premier bus.

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